Word: ephraim
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...blunt, five-page decision issued yesterday, Superior Court Judge Lewis Goldberg decreed the novel "obscene, indecent, and impure." The Judge's decision came six weeks after the hearings in which the lawyer for Henry Miller and Grove Press, Mr. Ephraim London, had tried to show that the book was not obscene...
...request came early in the morning from attorney Ephraim London, the New York lawyer who represents both Miller and the publishers of the book, Grove Press, Inc. London asked permission to withdraw from the case on behalf of Grove Press' president, Barney Rosset, but continue in the proceedings as Miller's representative...
Miller and his publishers, Grove Press, are represented by Attorney Ephraim London, a New York lawyer who makes a specialty of this sort of case. He is not about to play the prosecution's game of letting the case turn on the contents of the book alone...
...Jacob's Blessing, light seems actually to shine from the dying patriarch. Summoned to his father's deathbed, Joseph has brought with him his two sons and his Egyptian wife Asenath, who is the mother of Ephraim, the younger son. Jacob blesses his grandsons, thus adopting them in effect and admitting them to the tribes of Israel. But against all custom, he is inspired to bless Ephraim first. Joseph gently tries to guide the patriarch's hand to the head of Manasseh, explaining that he is the elder. Jacob, filled with prophetic spirit, replies (Genesis...
...darkness speak, Rembrandt surrounds the entire scene with a deathly shadow, concentrates the light mainly in Jacob as that moment's vessel of God's will, and then makes it leap and pour goldenly past the dark head and hurt eyes of Manasseh upon fair-haired Ephraim, who shines like his grandfather...