Word: davids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opening program of the series, a performance of Honegger's "King David" by the M.I.T. Choral Society, will take place at 8:30 p.m. this Thursday, July 5, in M.I.T.'s ultra-modern Kresge Auditorium. The next event will be "An Evening of Carl Dreyer's Films: Vampire and The Passion of Joan of Arc," which will take place next Wednesday, July 11, in Harvard's Allston Burr Hall, Room...
...single man," said Israel's testy Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion last week of his longtime Cabinet Partner Moshe Sharett, "is so obviously fitted for the task of Foreign Minister." With this glowing tribute the Prime Minister promptly fired Sharett from the job he had held since Israel's founding...
Free & Equal. The society's real aim is refurbishing ideas. It was founded in 1949 by Colonel David Stirling, 40, a hard-driving bachelor who led a commando unit in daring raids against Rommel behind German lines in the western desert. Settling in Rhodesia after the war, Scottish-born Stirling was shocked by the rising racial hatred he saw everywhere. He decided to do something about it "before total catastrophe overtakes both white and non-white societies." His plan: a society of all Africans, regardless of color, in which each would have equal rights and-as he fulfilled certain...
When he is not trying to wash off all that bear fat from Princess Sunday, big dimwit David is trying to hold up his end of the fur trade against the encroaching North West Company-or "pedlars," as they are called by Hudson Bay's old guard-and H.B.'s head man, Lord Selkirk, a contemptible character who weighs only 110 Ibs. While brooding on his diet ("In a day or two he intended to eat an entire raw liver, for he had been feeling groggy lately; a straight meat diet was getting him down"), David manages...
...even the hungriest reader might find the most sympathetic character a half-breed named Buffalo Dung, who deeply dislikes David and aims an arrow at his digestive juices. Unhappily, Buffalo Dung misses, and the epic staggers to its end like a strayed moose caught in an Armour's assembly line. By then, for those who wonder Quo Vardis Fisher?, heap big David and contented new Squaw Sunday are headed West, perhaps to Hollywood...