Word: isaac
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wolfe said he is not entirely opposed to the dominance of European ideas. "If I ever go to the moon, I want to go under the guidance of the laws of a European, Isaac Newton. I don't want to go any other way," he said...
...listen to Mozart and discuss nuances of Goethe. An Arab who is mildly sym pathetic to Israel has his car blown apart by terrorists; Israelis confide pro-Palestinian sympathies. The nation, demoralized by the Yom Kippur War, is also torn-and sometimes transfigured-by diversity. Young violinists audition for Isaac Stern ("a death-defying act on four taut strings") while soldiers patrol gardens and political hawks call for takeovers of the West Bank. Israel, Bellow concludes, "is both a garrison state and a cultivated society, both Spartan and Athenian. It tries to do everything, to understand everything, to make provisions...
...Rabbi Isaac Mann, Saturday, before Mincha, 1 Bryant Street...
...Rabbi Isaac Mann, Monday, 7:30 pm, 1 Bryant Street...
...Navels. The first installment of the New Media Bible, as it is called, consists of ten 20-minute segments covering Genesis 1-22 (from the Creation to Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac) and Luke 1-2 (the Annunciation, the Nativity and Jesus' youth). They were filmed in the sere landscape of the Holy Land and neighboring areas, using largely unknown actors. One exception: Topol, the Israeli star of Hollywood's Fiddler on the Roof, who portrays Abraham...