Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fortune started, the paterfamilias, onetime coin dealer Mayer Amschel Rothschild, left a last commandment to his five sons: Maintain absolute unity. In later years the brothers quarreled often but obeyed their father. They wrote to one another voluminously in the privacy of almost indecipherable Judendeutsch (German written in Hebrew characters) and bailed one another out. Hard times for James in Paris brought Nathan's London to the rescue, and so on--meaning that the Rothschilds, a power unto themselves, could usually float above the fates of individual nations and regimes...
...inventor David Hampton was inspired by the nurture-intensive electronic Tamagotchis he saw at the Toy Fair last year. One Furby advantage over the Tamagotchi: it doesn't die. Instead, the Furby "learns" to speak English, and it can teach a child Furbish, concocted by Hampton from Japanese, Thai, Hebrew and Mandarin Chinese. (Lesson One: "kah a-tay" means "I'm hungry.") Hampton sees his Furbies as the Adams and Eves of a grander world of interactive electronics. All for about...
...Arts' Emerson Theatre to watch four short films by students of the Ma'ale School of Communication, Art of Film and Television in Jerusalem. What followed a brief introduction by festival director Sara Rubin and former Ma'ale School director Udi Lion was a revelation told in softly lilting Hebrew of aspects of Jewish culture rarely added to the American salad bowl...
Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Oriental Languages Peter Machinist '66 also says spending time with his son, who is in seventh grade, keeps him more attuned to popular culture...
...work, I usually try to have the music act as a metaphor for plurality in general. And the music acts as a hypothetical space for all these different cultures of North America. I'm from New York. I live in Chinatown. You turn left the signs are in Hebrew, you turn right they're in Chinese, you go straight, they're in Spanish. And these are all cultures I'm into and I respect them. It's the whole situation of urban placement. We're all in this one area just doing our thing, and on another level...