Word: davids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jerusalem that Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion proclaimed sprang from Zionist and Socialist dreams in 19th century European ghettos. In their idealistic zeal the pioneers of the new Zion tilled the desert and made it blossom like Isaiah's rose, filled the cities with factories until they hummed like Ezekiel's wheel. In the first decade of independence they brought 915,000 immigrants from Europe, Asia and Africa in a visionary "Ingathering of the Exiles" that more than doubled the tiny republic's population, and made it a dynamic and orderly body politic in sharp contrast with...
...ailing, n 2-year-old Pennsylvania Railroad, "this is going to be the worst year." The 1958 deficit, said Vice President David C. Bevan last week, will top the $4,048,000 loss of 1946, only other year that the Pennsy was in the red. The line has lost money for seven straight months, and "July will be very...
...close to Gulbenkian. but a few men were near him. In Gulbenkian, Biographer Lodwick draws on the slightly embittered memories of David Young, for 26 years Gulbenkian's secretary. In Mr Five Per Cent, Biographer Hewins relies on the even-tempered viewpoint of Gulbenkian's only son. Nubar. now 62 and described as a flamboyantly bearded and monocled devotee of fox hunts, orchids and Rolls-Royces. Both books are unevenly written and a shade hero-worshipful. What emerges from each is a curiously fascinating bifocal vision that combines moments of startling intimacy with impersonal middle-distance reporting...
...book is essentially a brass-rubbing on the tomb of a dead society. In his introduction, Lord David Cecil (The Young Melbourne) talks of a "masterpiece" and describes certain passages as among "the most beautiful in all modern English literature." While the trilogy plainly fails to live up to this exaggerated billing, it remains a well-written, well-crafted work. Another of the Stately Tomes of England has been thrown open to the public...
...Bridge on the River Kwai. Winner of seven Academy Awards as 1957's best picture by the year's best director (David Lean) with the year's best actor (Alec Guinness)-a magnificent war story (TIME...