Word: israel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shepherd David, a pale boy staring at a man in armor; David the warrior, huge-thewed and falcon-hearted, marching before the armies of Israel into battle; King David sitting in judgment over his people, stroking the black wires of his beard with fingers that have forgotten the harp; David, old and a prophet, remembering past enchantments and past ills-this cycle in the sounds of a limited wind-choir, a piano, harmonium, celesta, double-bass and percussion, was heard last week in Manhattan -Arthur Honegger's "Symphonic Psalm," performed by the Society of the Friends of Music...
...consult the Witch of Endor and a whirling wind of ghostly voices imparts to him foreknowledge of doom. Saul and his three sons die in the battle of Gilboa while the Israelites march ("The Lament of Gilboa"). A women's chorus of solo voices proclaims David King of Israel. David's humility has gone flying away with the pebble that burrowed in Goliath's brain; he swaggers and struts before the Lord; calamities confront his house. The music, from a gloating minor, rises steadily with blood-burning cymbals and a strump of drums; David dances, David prances...
Such was his end: the pious Jew apostate preaching salvation in Israel. They stoned him at street corners, kicked his body and head. Dovvid Pollock saw his handiwork and hung himself on a stout hook...
...Seabright, N. J. David of Israel, on the day when he sent a round pebble into the dim, appalling brain of Goliath, was doubtless a thin, supple little man like William M. Johnston, onetime (1915, '19) national champion. Johnston's accuracy, in his heyday, was doubtless superior to that of the Israelite champion, but they both made the same appeal to a gallery-the appeal of skill, of courage, hazardously sustained by slight flesh. In 1921, 1922 and 1923, Johnston won the Seabright Lawn Tennis Bowl. Last week he got off a train from Chicago and within four...
...birthday party at the Harlem Home of the Daughters of Israel...