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Birge's Harvard Club covers one-third of the state in area, and roughly one-sixth of the population. The central-southeast part of Ohio is a rural area, dotted by small towns like Chillicothe, Gallipolis, Athens, and Mt. Gilead. The population of these towns runs from...
...there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered...
Baltimore-born Spinster Henrietta Szold, at 49, was heartbroken because a romance with a rabbinical scholar had come to an end. As balm, her mother suggested a trip to Gilead. What Zionist Szold saw in Palestine under Turkish rule in 1909 made her personal troubles seem trivial. In Jerusalem's Old City, she saw a child's trachoma-dimmed eyes covered with flies, and when she asked the mother why the flies were not brushed away, she was told: "They will only return...
...potential lawgiver who comes to believe that the god Aton is really justice. But Howard Fast cannot get within miles of the God-inspired, prophetic Moses who stirred the soul and genius of the Chosen People and marked out the whole history of civilized man. From Sinai to Gilead. Jephta and His Daughter fits neatly beside Fast's Moses. Seven generations have passed since Moses covenanted with Yahweh to worship Him alone. In that time the wheel has turned full circle: the people of Gilead. "grown fat on the oil and milk of the land," are not only...
...Harvard football has come full circle. The season of 1950 was as dismal as, in fact a shade dismaler than, the season of 1932. But where is the balm in Gilead unless it be spelled "b-o-m-b? Certainly not in this report, grinding up the feeble residue of self-esteem, that the Harvard debating team has sustained defeat at the hands of the forensic forces of the Massachusetts state prison...