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...limitations stem partly, too, from the writing. When Louis Howe and Al Smith are around, there are lively and worldly moments, and brief flares of comedy. But in self-conscious family scenes, the dialogue tends to be wooden; and at other times, with F.D.R. himself, it tends to seem graven on stone...
...Jewish tradition the opening statement (Exodus 20:2; Deuteronomy 5:6) of the Lord who brought the Israelites out of Egypt is considered to be the first of the Commandments. The command to worship no other gods and the prohibition of graven images are lumped into the second. From the third through the tenth, the numbering used by the Jews and most Protestants is the same...
...graven inflexible laws...
Scripture forbids the creation of graven images.* but the compelling affirmation of the Talmud is "This is my God and I shall adorn Him." The solution for one of Israel's leading artists. Yehoshua Kovarsky, 49, was to move into his own kind of abstract symbolism, while holding to the philosophy that "an abstraction must have meaning for the viewer...
...Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor any manner of likeness, of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth"-Exodus...