Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when he was mayor of West Berlin -donned earphones so that his Israeli companions could point out the sights. Later, he was taken to Yad Vashem, a solemn memorial to Jews killed by the Nazis. Standing near such names as Auschwitz, Dachau, Buchenwald, spelled out in English and Hebrew on the memorial's floor, Brandt heard the cantor chant: "Let the Lord remember the souls of our brethren ... who were put to death, and who were killed and choked, and who were buried alive." As Brandt wordlessly moved to lay a wreath against the "Tomb of the Martyrs...
This is the voice of love." For the next nine hours, there is a mixture of music, news and cheerful chatter. The music is often hard: lots of rock interspersed with golden oldies sung in Arabic, Hebrew and English. But the main pitch is soft: "We will sell peace with music, for everyone with music has a right to love...
...that the best-paid faculty members were at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where the average professor is paid $30,303 in salary and fringe benefits for nine months' work; the New School for Social Research, where the average is $25,133; and Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, where it is $24,371. Harvard, which once ranked first, dropped to sixth place...
Martin said that a response to the demonstrators' letter would not be forth-coming for several days and that approval for the Hebrew exhibit had been given last summer, before he had come to Harvard...
David H. Partington, assistant librarian for the Middle Eastern Collection, said yesterday that financial support from the Friends of the Hebrew Collection had made possible the frequency of library exhibits on Hebrew literature...