Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Colonial--"Green Pastures." Last two weeks of Marc Connelly's Hebrew-African mythology...
Confronted with a less profound problem than the claims to truth of science or of art, Herman Melville once exclaimed: "By the best contradictory authorities, this Grecian story of Hercules and the whale is considered to be derived from the Hebrew story of Jonah; and vice versa . . . If I claim the demigod, then, why not the prophet...
...frequent U. S. commemorator, was to have opened a library exhibit of Scottiana, with items loaned by Owen D. Young and John P. Morgan. Because of delay in printing catalogs it was postponed until Oct. 1. But one Scott celebration did come off last week, surprisingly enough in the Hebrew Cultural Gardens in Rockefeller Park in Cleveland, an enterprise designed by the Cleveland Gan Ivri League (Hebrew Garden League, a woman's organization) to include symbolic German, Italian and Polish gardens...
...Cleveland's Hebrew Cultural Gardens last week, with Scottish bagpipers droning and Scott authorities lecturing, a bronze bas-relief of Rebecca Gratz was unveiled at the Gardens' entrance across the street from the Shakespeare Garden...
...achieved fame in his subject, then focused this knowledge on sociology. For the solution of social problems he labored to find a calculus as Leibnitz and Newton had found one to solve mathematical problems. Led by his environmental interpretation of evolution to college and town planning, he designed the Hebrew University building in Jerusalem, reconstructed the slums of Edinburgh, laid out Rabindranath Tagore's university in Bengal. Correlator of the arts and sciences, he wrote Evolution of Sex, Biology, Life. His ablest U. S. disciple is Critic Lewis Mumford...