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...Exodus that a dozen precious gems be engraved with the names of the twelve tribes. Chagall suffused each window with a single brilliant color on which he painted Joseph's description of the tribes of Israel found in Genesis and Deuteronomy, i.e., Naphtali is described as "a hind let loose," Zebulun as dwelling "at the haven of the sea." For Chagall, the challenge then became to join image and material: "The material is the material of nature, and all that is of nature is religious. For a cathedral or a synagogue it is the same phenomenon-a mysticism passing...
...little there, and you wake up and you're lost." Said Wilkie Hanson, a New Jersey businessman: "If we get out of one place we'll have to fight them somewhere else." Said Chicago Cost Accountant Ray Nowacki: "We'll stand up on our hind legs in Berlin." Said Bob Maxwell, who conducts a Detroit radio poll: "People think we've been backing off too long...
Some critics say that the "modern movement" has left William Zorach far be hind; others say it is just the other way around...
...script is swift, cogent, vernacular. But Hero Attenborough's performance is the best thing in the picture. He is so ordinary it hurts, but then his ordinariness is an essential part of his significance. Anybody, he seems to say, anybody at all can stand up on his hind legs and live his own life if only he has the guts, and if he doesn't have the guts he might as well lie down, because he's dead...
...Britain's renowned 18th century lexicographer and epigrammatist, Dr. Samuel Johnson, who felt that women ought to know better than to invade a male province and could only succeed there as a freak. "Sir," said Johnson, "a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well, but you are surprised to find it done...