Word: championing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brazil, a Swiss electrician. From the U.S. came Polish-born Samuel Joshua Singer, 58, a onetime Yeshiva student and a former assistant attorney general of New York State. France sent a professional Scriptural scholar, Roman Catholic Abbe Raymond Seguineau, 42, who is preparing a Bible concordance; Finland's champion was blonde, blue-eyed Irja Immonen, 29, a church worker. The Israeli champion, predictably, was a rabbinical student: tense, bearded Yomtov Krasniansky, 24, who crammed for 15 hours a day before the contest. Calmest of the lot was Graham Mitchell, 29, a Seventh-day Adventist and an accountant from Sydney...
...contest lasted two nights, using questions drawn up by a team of Catholic, Protestant and Jewish scholars and tested out on the 1961 world champion, Rabbi Yihie Alsheich of Jerusalem. A team of 15 linguists then put the questions, all taken from the Old Testament, into the ten languages spoken by the contestants. Toughest problem: phrasing the questions in Amharic for Begalech Gabre, a beautiful 18-year-old girl from Ethiopia, who entered the contest in hopes of getting a scholarship to a Jerusalem medical school...
Television's second week of premières was staged almost entirely by CBS. As incumbent ratings champion, having had eight of the top ten prime-time shows last season, CBS waited until the challengers had flashed nearly all their goods before spreading out its twelve new entries for 1964-65. In one or two instances, it could thus be said that the best was saved for last, but in general CBS's new shows lack the warmth of those on the other networks. CBS has a cool and mechanical touch. Its choices in comedy seem cynical, where...
Died. Clive Bell, 83, British art critic and charter member of London's once celebrated Bloomsbury Group of intellectuals (others: John Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster, and Bell's sister-in-law Virginia Woolf), a vociferous champion of such post impressionists as Cézanne, Van Gogh and Gauguin in the early 1900s when other Britons thought them horrid; of cancer; in London...
Herzog, despite his learned jokes and sophisticated dalliances with a series of ladies, is that common figure of today's literature: the anti-hero champion of the ordinary life, whose plain decency is contrasted with the theatricality and contrived cruelties of everyone around him. The novel is an attack on the proud intellectualism of over-ratiocinative Jews (and others). "We love apocalypses too much," Herzog decides, "and crisis ethics and florid extremism with its thrilling language. Excuse me. I am a simple human being, more or less...