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Jacob's sore temptation is Wanda, the daughter of his master. She is intelligent and well formed. But by both Jewish and Christian custom of the times, marriage of Jew and Gentile must be punished at least by ostracism, probably by death. Jacob is ransomed and eventually wanders to Lublin, but finds no comfort among the city's Jews, who seem to have forgotten the Cossack massacres. They have grown fat. "All this flesh was dressed in velvet, silk and sables. They were so heavy they wheezed; their eyes shone greedily. They spoke an only half comprehensible language...
...tribute of bread and salt to the Czar. But his major works were small and intimate. One day, Czar Alexander III asked him to do something special as an Easter present for the Czarina. Fabergé produced an enameled egg so pleasing that giving jeweled eggs became an Easter custom in the royal family. Each of the eggs held some surprise inside-other eggs, or perhaps a hen, or a miniature of the czarevitch. Even when Czar Nicholas II was at the front in 1916 fighting the Germans, he took time out to telegraph instructions for what turned...
...genuine gospel until Mahalia Jackson made her first European tour in 1952. Now there are about 20 well-known professional groups, like the Stars of Faith, singing for pay around the country and getting paid well. Such gospelers as Clara Ward and her Ward Singers, who tour in a custom-built lavender Chrysler, are taking the Word as far afield as nightclubs and the borscht circuit. Even the big record companies have begun to realize that gospel sells-chiefly, as one A. & R. man points out, because "gospel singing has the greatest concentration of exciting voices in the country." Although...
Both the traditional and new will provide a colorful backdrop to the activities of Commencement week. Many of the stately rituals accompanying Thursday's exercises date to Harvard's first commencement in 1642. In accord with ancient custom, for example, a troop of scarlet-coated, mounted National Lancers will escort Gov. John A. Volpe into the Yard...
...Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and his lady drove into the neatly trimmed country estate outside Paris. There the Charles de Gaulles awaited their weekend guests on the steps of the Château de Champs, the magnificently paneled onetime home of Madame Pompadour. It has become Macmillan's custom to make contact with France's haughty leader at least once a year. But this time it was especially important for the two statesmen to have their leisurely hours together in the French countryside, for Europe is moving into decisive times; bargains made, friendships hardened, grievances dissolved could have...