Word: eleazar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thought, ye who enter)-refer to the cup of forgetfulness ancient Greeks thought was drunk before crossing the river Lethe. The dragon-fighting lions (probably an oblique reference to political feuds) derived from a sketch by Leonardo da Vinci. The elephant with castle was a symbol used to depict Eleazar's slaying of the beast of King Antiochus (/ Maccabees 6:17-46), a feat of self-sacrifice interpreted as prefiguring Christ's martyrdom. But many of Vicino Orsini's fantasies remain obscure. He set out to create a garden unlike any ever seen-and he succeeded...
Buried 2,000 Years: The Dead Sea Scrolls (CBS's Armstrong Circle Theater), laced with film clips of monotonous desert vistas and sun-scorched hills, of "the sweet water of Galilee" and frenzied rioting in Palestine, retold the story of Hebrew Archaeologist Eleazar Sukenik's brave struggle to spirit the first of the ancient parchments through the barbed-wire barricades of hostile Arabs. But the crucial events that led to the archaeological find of the century and the evaluation of the Scrolls' significance to the history of Judaism and Christianity were too complex to be tailored skillfully...
...Another ingenious line of thought reasons that the Teacher was one Eleazar, in the reign of Simon's son, John Hyrcanus (134 to 104 B.C.). Hyrcanus, according to the Jewish historian Josephus, was friendly to the anti-Hellenist Pharisees ("Separators") who clung to the old ways. Once Hyrcanus gave a dinner for their leaders, and after dinner invited their opinions on his rule, whereupon Eleazar bluntly told him he had no right to the High Priesthood. Promptly, John Hyrcanus switched his favor to the pro-Hellenistic Sadducees and the Pharisaic observances were forbidden. It is not hard to imagine...
Based on a better-than-average crime novel by Eleazar Lipsky, the film is played as though everyone concerned enjoyed making it. Director John Sturges draws a distinctive gallery of urban types, with zoot-suited William Campbell as a gabby delinquent, John Hodiak as a district attorney torn between ambition and pity, and Jay C. Flippen as a Scandinavian sailor out to make a quick buck. Tracy generates considerable sympathy as the unstable lawyer, makes understandable the willingness of both the police and the underworld to help him out of a tough spot...
Sunday afternoon Eleazar de Carvalho will be guest conductor in a program featuring Jorge Bolet as soloist in Prokofieff's Piano Concerto No. 2, and Guarnieri's Second Symphony and Moussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, with orchestration by Ravel...