Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jerusalem Correspondent Marlin Levin reports, Geller began appearing before soldiers' groups, in private homes and on the stage, performing his repertory of tricks and claiming to have psychokinetic powers. At first he was widely acclaimed; he came under suspicion when a group of psychologists and computer experts from Hebrew University duplicated all of his feats and called him a fraud. Eventually, Geller left the country in disgrace...
George F. Carrier, Coolidge Professor of Applied Mathematics, will head the committee examining the Commission. The other members of the committee are Ackerman, Philip Gelston '74, Johnson, Paul, Isadore Twersky, Littaeur Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy, and Gail Pierson, assistant Professor of Economics. Pierson and Paul are not members of the Commission...
...Schwarz-Bart, the French-born son of a Polish Jewish family annihilated by the Nazis, published The Last of the Just. It was a novel that rose directly out of 700 years of history and anti-Semitism onto the bestseller lists. Schwarz-Bart shaped his book around the ancient Hebrew legend of the 36 just men, whose job it was to suffer mankind's collective grief. Often they were unaware of their divine mission, but collectively, by storing human suffering, they kept it from poisoning the world...
...least 16 years of age, he could bring him to the magistrate's court where "such a son shall be put to death." It is interesting to note that this was copied directly from the Old Testament. Of significance is the fact that this early Hebrew practice recognized the fallibility of parents and left the decision to the elders of the town...
...within. In 1970 a satire called Queen of the Bathtub was pressured to close after 20 performances because it dealt brutally with Israeli losses during the "war of attrition" with Egypt. "Toilet humor," growled Defense Minister Moshe Dayan. Three months ago an English-language lampoon called Lillit, published by Hebrew University students, suddenly lost both circulation and government financial support. The magazine had carried the comic-strip adventures of a muscular "SuperGolda"; her principal adversary was a Tel Aviv intellectual driven berserk by police corruption, religious fanaticism, militarism, pollution, inflation and social inequality. Israel's state-run television network...