Word: hebrew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hebrew and Yiddish: Language and Literature...
Critics of this argument are always quick to cite the Health, Education and Welfare administrator who, when he heard that blacks weren't taking religious studies because they did not have a strong knowledge of Greek and Hebrew, two prerequisites, told the school to get rid of the two languages and include more modern languages. The analogy is too easily and inconsiderately applied. If there is no clear link between the scientific knowledge and clinical performance, then what is so outrageous about making the curriculum fit today's present need for more doctors in impoverished areas...
Critics of this argument are always quick to cite the Health, Education and Welfare administrator who, when he heard that blacks weren't taking religious studies because they did not have a strong knowledge of Greek and Hebrew, two prerequisites, told the school to get rid of the two languages and include more modern languages. The analogy is too easily and inconsiderately applied. If there is no clear link between the scientific knowledge and clinical performance, then what is so outrageous about making the curriculum fit today's present need for more doctors in impoverished areas...
...literally accurate as we can possibly be," says Heyman. "We don't make up any dialogue." The actors speak their lines verbatim from the Bible, using the languages their characters would have used, though the producers have taken some liberties. Adam and Eve mouth words silently; Abraham speaks Hebrew; Luke, Greek. The voice-over is a word-for-word reading of the Bible in English by such narrators as Alexander Scourby and Orson Welles. The sound track is available in three versions: King James, Revised Standard and New American...
...hike over dirt paths through Independence Forest on the outskirts of Jerusalem. Their destination: a wooded area dedicated to Lyndon Baines Johnson, where Lady Bird planted a pine sapling and Luci watered it. The former First Lady also met with Israeli President Ephraim Katzir and dropped in at the Hebrew University Library. Being a good guest, Lady Bird observed: "There are more books in Jerusalem on my husband than in Washington...