Word: isaiah
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...issues like McCarthyism in the '50s, civil rights in the '60s and Viet Nam. A recurrent device labeled "Portrait of an American" allows him to draw vignettes of his favorite fellow countrymen: Ralph Nader, Dr. Benjamin Spock and, perhaps above all, Norman Thomas ("He was the American Isaiah"). But the Manchester method of history may finally be described as stream-of-schlock, often fascinating though sometimes overwhelming. Figures like Marilyn Monroe ("She exulted in her carnality") and Fiorello LaGuardia ("swashbuckling five-foot-two-inch mayor") coexist in a kind of cartoon version of American folklore. About three pages...
Rabbi Adam Fisher of Temple Isaiah in Stony Brook, L.I., decided that his temple's lawn was as good a place as any to begin righting a great wrong...
...about and struggle only for security careers in what they perceive as a frightening economic environment, we can be inspired by the admirable Loeb portrayal of Ralph Berger's tentative growth and determination during the bottom of the Depression, "Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust," Jacob quotes Isaiah, "and the earth shall cast out the dead...
...satires of scientific logic are an essay that postulates the existence of the Infinite Zipper and another that proves heaven is actually hotter than hell. The reasoning goes like this: heaven, which the Bible says receives 49 times as much radiation from the sun as the earth does (Isaiah 30:26), would therefore have a temperature of 525° C. Hell, where the main topographical feature is a lake of molten brimstone (Revelation 21:8), could have a temperature of no more, no less, than 444.6° C. Above that temperature, the brimstone would vaporize; much below it, the lake...
...were Jewish leaders who did have contact with the Nazis for the Germans established indigenous Jewish chiefs of ghettoes. These people were not necessarily Zionist and to call them collaborators in the destruction of European Jewry is an outrageous bending of what is a complex story laboriously documented in Isaiah Trunk's recent book, Judenrat...