Word: danzig
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...boyhood idols were E. Victor Seixas, Jr., a tennis player, and Allison Danzing, who wrote about tennis for The Times. Twice the national champion, Seixas sometimes smiled when he lost a point. Between the lines of Danzig's dispatches you could read the smiles. Thirty years later my idea of a perfect day would include watching Seixas play and reading Danzing describe the match...
...chain I have tended includes--it may have stared with--Seixas and Dancing. As I shuffle off the scene, out of the blacksmith's shop, if you will, Seixas and Danzig have outlasted in my memory thousands of idiotic distractions the world wished to impose, in the name of power, against my conception of life, against life itself as I live it. Real life is a competitiveness that smiles at losses and can write about...
...There's no tooth for a tooth/ I saw Judas Iscariot carrying John Wilkes Booth." Cash's voice has deepened with age; he has never sounded more commanding. The songs were written by a range of composers, including Cash, Kris Kristofferson and even hard rocker Glenn Danzig. Each one is moderately paced, simply arranged. Cash's guitar work is direct and intimate -- an old cowboy strumming away around a dying campfire...
...Semitic Museum for many years. We will be very sorry to see it languish as part of the Harvard scene. It was a place where diverse groups could mix in appreciation of thoughtful exhibits like the rediscovered Bonfils photographs of 19th century Jerusalem and the remaining artifacts of the Danzig synagogue...
...department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, is more than just archaeology. There are lodged almost all the University's faculty involved in Arab, Jewish, Turkic and Persian history and culture. I can see why an archaeologist fixed on the ancient world might feel alien from exhibits like "Danzig 1939: Treasures from a Destroyed Community," which reopened the museum, or from "The Jewish Experience at Harvard and Radcliffe," created to celebrate the University's 350th anniversary in 1986. The same might be said for "Palms and Pomegranates: The Costumes of Saudi Arabia" or "Monumental Islamic Calligraphy...