Word: covenanter
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Taking the theme of Mt. Sinai, where God gave Moses the two stone tables containing the Ten Commandments. Wright projected a huge (175 ft. wide by 100 ft. tall) pyramidal structure in the form of a distorted hexagon. The main auditorium will seat 1,200. Dominating the interior will be...
Lucas Marsh is the hero of Morton Thompson's vast, sprawling novel, Not as a Stranger, a book as fantastically sincere as its hero. When Novelist Thompson died last summer at 45, he had to his credit an intense, rough-edged novel about Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis, the identifier of...
Four Corners. From the actual plaintiffs and defendants he represents, Marshall gets not a cent; the N.A.A.C.P. and its Legal Fund (combined annual budget: $500,000) pay him a flat $12,000 a year to give first-class counsel to Jim Crow's "secondclass citizens." Marshall generally has a...
Dwight Eisenhower and his wife dropped into the chapel at Denver's Lowry Air Force Base last week and listened to a forcefully delivered sermon on that theme. The chaplain retold the rugged Old Testament story of how the Israelites, trusting in the sacred ark of the covenant as...
British Israelites are partial to an unorthodox philological theory that holds the English language to be derived from Hebrew. Thus bar (son) reappears in the British "bairn"; peri (fruit) in "berry"; katon (little) in "kitten." The word "British" is simply a rendering of Berit-ish (covenant man).