Word: davidson
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According to medieval Jewish scholars, there are 301,655,722 angels-the bodiless spirits who stand midway in the chain of being between God and man. In A Dictionary of Angels (Free Press; $15), Poet-Anthologist Gustav Davidson, 72, has put together a wacky and wonderful compendium of angelic lore, including brief biographies of 3,406 angels whose names, habits and histories are recorded in the Bible, rabbinical and cabalistic literature, writings of the church fathers and poetry...
...command dictated the Koran. Raphael, who escorted Tobias on his journey to Media, has a host of spiritual assignments: chief of the order of virtues, ruling prince of the second heaven, the guardian angel of science and knowledge, the healer of human disease. Of almost equal importance, says Davidson, is Uriel, archangel of salvation, often credited with warning Noah of the Flood. Despite their hierarchical importance, none of these four is the largest angel: that honor, according to the Zohar, goes to Metatron, whose height was equal to the breadth of the world-although other angelic experts insist that Aupiel...
...occasion, and stewards prepared to serve 600 bottles of imported wine a day to accompany the meals cooked by 20 imported Belgian chefs. While bands played such incongruous tunes as Marching Through Georgia, squadrons of police escorts roared down Kinshasa's boulevards all week long on their Harley-Davidson motorcycles...
...Charles S. Davidson, associate professor of Medicine and associate director of the Thorndike Memorial Laboratories at the Boston City Hospital, will attend a conference at the Weizman Institute in Israel on August 23. The subject of the conference is health problems in developing states. Dr. Davidson will discuss liver diseases...
...with an answer. Two weeks ago, in one magnificent afternoon at Wimbledon, she 1) polished off Britain's Ann Haydon-Jones to win the singles again, 2) teamed with Rosemary Casals to beat Maria Bueno and Nancy Richey for the doubles title, and 3) combined with Owen Davidson to capture the mixed doubles. It was a feat last accomplished by Doris Hart...