Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Judge Jacob Lawiton, before announcing the verdict, explained that the officers, by law, did have the right to ask Washington questions...
...annual Festival of Two Worlds in the medieval town north of Rome, was capped by a "Parade of the Zodiac" hat show. And there they came, trooping top-heavily across the stage: Actress Joan Fontaine as Aquarius, the Water Bearer; Mrs. Marion Javits, wife of New York Senator Jacob Javits, as Capricorn, the Goat; Justine and Lily Gushing, daughters of slick Ski Resort Operator Alexander Gushing, as Gemini, the twins in yellow silk sheaths and sequin-studded grey turbans. To be sure that the headgear crushed not a curl, Hairdresser Mr. Kenneth was backstage with teasing comb at the ready...
...biggest winner anywhere in the U.S. was New York's kinetic Republican Senator Jacob Javits, who piled up a plurality of nearly 1,000,000. Indeed, Javits did not need a bloc vote-such were his energies, his eloquencies and his abilities that he would probably have won by the same margin had he been a Buddhist...
...that these are in any way pale ghosts; the H.D.C. production well brings out how fine, tense, and enormously vital they are. The old Jacob Hummel, who must comprehend and dominate an ornate, almost Florentine, tangle of intrigue in the first and second acts, cows everyone in the Loeb with his knowledge of sin. "I've caused misery and been miserable myself," he says, "They must cancel each other...
...Dimension of Mystery. For so mild and retiring a man, Underwood turns fierce when speaking of the "too rapid abandonment of subject matter" that he finds in modern art. "I agree passionately with Jacob Epstein. After trying his hand at abstraction, he told me, 'It's too easily exhausted,' meaning there is no mystery...