Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Agam has gained important commissions from his native Israel. His 29½-ft. by 20-ft. mural (with 30,000 small squares of colored lines and dots), called Double Metamorphosis, bewilders passengers on the liner Shalom. In 1964, he did a 197-ft.-long ceiling mural titled Jacob's Ladder, which baffles visitors to the National Convention Center in Jerusalem. Each one in its built-in multiple perspectives is a thousand paintings...
Fulbright's fulminations exhausted even the legendary patience of some of his Senate colleagues. In a floor speech, New York Republican Jacob Javits finally expostulated that when Fulbright alleges that U.S. policy grows out of an "arrogance of power," he "challenges the very foundations and motives of U.S. policy without offering viable alternatives...
...presidential candidacy. The Republicans may give tradition a further gig in 1968. Michigan Governor George Romney, a Mormon, is one of the most promising possibilities for the Republican presidential nomination. For geographic balance alone, the G.O.P. might well pick Romney's new but warm friend, New York Senator Jacob Javits, as his running mate, there by setting up an unprecedentedly balanced, Mormon-Jewish ticket...
...program opened with the Men's Glee Club alone singing two Renaissance motets by Jacob Handl. A small soli chorus sang from the balcony; and, considering the difficulties that such division presents, the precision of the performance was laudable. The power that a men's Glee Club must have to be really effective was missing, however, and the pieces chosen were short and of little interest. Those who favor the pre-Classical could again complain of having been unfairly ignored...
...otherwise accurate and fine report. Tuesday's CRIMSON seriously misquoted Monday evening's Young Democrats' speaker, Chairman Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., '37. In answer to a question concerning whether Sen. Jacob Javits would seek the New York governorship. Mr. Roosevelt is quoted in your story as replying. "Javits would probably be better off with a Democratic governor, so that he could be top dog, just as Bobby Kennedy is better off with a Republican in Albany...