Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other Knight dailies: the Akron Beacon-Journal, Boca Raton (Fla.) News, Bradenton (Fla.) Herald, Charlotte (N.C.) News and Observer, Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer and Ledger, Detroit Free Press, Lexington (Ky.) Herald and Leader, Macon (Ga.) News and Telegraph, Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News, and the Tallahassee Democrat...
...ocean that separates man from this self-knowledge remains to be charted. Crossing it will require money, dedication, ingenuity and the development of a whole new field of science and technology. The explorers of the brain have embarked on a journey even more significant than the voyage of Columbus in 1492. Columbus discovered a new continent. The explorers of the brain may well discover a new world...
...help out, Sirica greased cars ("In those days, I wanted to be an auto mechanic") and sold newspapers. He took up boxing at Washington's Knights of Columbus gym and the Y.M.C.A. He graduated from Columbia Preparatory School and directly entered George Washington University Law School, "but I couldn't understand anything they were talking about so I quit." He worked at a newsstand for a year, then tried Georgetown University Law School, but the Latin legal terminology threw him, and he once more withdrew to sell newspapers. After his itinerant family returned to the road, Sirica decided...
Moreover, Wiesenthal, and this is a shocking surprise, often seems to be a careless detective. He moves from pure conjecture to assumed fact on the barest circumstantial evidence. But he does suggest with some conviction that the wealthy, Jewish-born Christians who financed Columbus' expedition for Ferdinand and Isabella had hopes of more than monetary return: if not the discovery of the lost tribes, perhaps at least a new land to which Jews could emigrate rather than convert to Christianity...
...much economic and spiritual harm both to the Jews and to Spain itself, crowning the Inquisition's persecution of Jews with the expulsion from the country of most of its best commercial minds. The final irony, of course, is that these two remorseless rulers, who financed Columbus' later expeditions with plundered Jewish wealth, unwittingly opened a New World where, in the centuries that followed, persecuted Jews would indeed find the haven they had sought so long...