Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their patients. The average beholder who looks at And on the Eighth Day hard and long enough is apt to wonder whether it is he or the artist who is in need of a session on the confessional couch. Dean, a successful commercial artist and nephew of revolutionary Sculptor Jacob Epstein, has some of the humor of a Thurber or a Steig: but he is not trying to be funny. This is his third book of drawings (the others: It's a Long Way to Heaven, What Am I Doing Here?), all owed to the remorseless probings...
...bucolic Jacob's Pillow at Lee, Mass., summer dance fans and Manhattan critics crowded into the big wooden barn-studio to see the first performance of aging (57) Ted Shawn's The Dreams of Jacob, with music by Darius Milhaud. Critics found his new five-movement work both a little flat and a little obvious-Jacob dancing unimaginatively with Rachel, wrestling too literally with the dark angel. The verdict: back to the woodshed...
Once, during the battle of the Colmar pocket, De Lattre's superior, U.S. General Jacob Devers, put the XXI U.S. Army Corps under his command (other U.S. officers were outraged by this move). Throughout the fighting, Devers kept up a stream of suggestions to De Lattre via field telephone. Finally De Lattre exploded: "If you want me to run this battle, leave me alone. If you want to run it, come here and take over." Devers, who respects De Lattre as a first-rate soldier, smiled: "I was wondering how soon he would say that...
...Mahanaim, in Galilee, near the place where Jacob once wrestled all night with an angel, Syrian and Israeli representatives met last week, after 3½ months of haggling, to conclude an armistice on the last active front of the Palestine...
Early last year a 14-man committee of prominent Quakers began a study of the cold war. They talked things over with high U.S. diplomatic officials and with such visiting Soviet bigwigs as Andrei Gromyko and Jacob Malik. Last week the Quaker proposal, a 28-page report, was delivered to Secretary of State Dean Acheson and to Soviet Ambassador Alexander S. Panyushkin...