Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very end denied personal responsibility for the genocide of European Jews, the effusive, lantern-jawed Okamoto positively gloried in his actions. "Revolutionary warfare is a war of justice," he told the court in an excitable singsong baritone that had to be cut off frequently to allow translation into Hebrew and English. "And so I admit very frankly what I have done." The revolution will go on, he insisted. "In Washington and New York, the houses of simple folk must be destroyed. That is how they will be able to feel the sweeping torrent of world revolution. The slaughter of human...
...morning, I slipped coming downstairs. A young stranger caught me by the elbow. His hand was strong and full of restraint. I saw short fingers with flat nails. Pale fingers with soft black down on the knuckles." Thus Hannah, a pretty young student at Jerusalem's Hebrew University, met a geologist-to-be named Michael Gonen. This novel by the popular Israeli writer Amos Oz is Hannah's first-person account of her ten-year marriage to Michael. The sentences fall like the drip drip drip of the rain on Hannah's Jerusalem, and what the voice...
...nation is considered a family, headed by the Tennô or Emperor. If one member stains the family reputation, his relatives are expected to make a show of remorse and expiation. In Jerusalem, Japanese Ambassador Eiji Tokura appeared on television. "Dear citizens of Israel," he said in halting Hebrew, "it is my wish 40 express my sorrow and apologize for this terrible crime perpetrated by Japanese nationals." Then he burst into tears...
...busiest is the Metaphysical Center in San Francisco. Its book department sells out 65% of its $25,000 stock every month. The center also presents tarot-card readings, daylong crash courses in palmistry (at $25 each), reincarnation workshops, and classes in astral projections, numerology and the esoteric Hebrew mystical system, the cabala. There is even a gift shop that sells
...imagination?the horned, winged creature with claws?dates at least as far back as ancient Mesopotamia, where it was the image of Pazuzu, the malaria-bearing demon of the southwest wind, the "king of the evil spirits of the air." In the Old Testament the Devil was satan, the Hebrew word for adversary, as in the Book of Job. Throughout the Old Testament, he remains clearly subject to the wrath and will of Yahweh. But the New Testament began to give the Devil stature, especially with Jesus' temptation in the desert, when the Devil offered him all the kingdoms...