Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cambridge, he and a colleague, Roger Penrose, showed more convincingly than ever before that if Einsteinian general relativity is correct, gravitational collapse will result in "singularities" that are totally hidden inside black holes. But Hawking did not stop there. Following up the work of John Wheeler's student, Jacob Bekenstein, he pointed out that there are important mathematical analogies between the bizarre otherworld of black holes and the familiar physical rules of thermodynamics, notably the idea of entropy-which says, in effect, that the universe is running down like an unwinding clock...
...said to Jacob: "Arise, go up to Beth-El, and dwell there...
...command to Jacob is being obeyed by his Jewish descendants. High on a hilltop above the valleys of the West Bank, 35 families belonging to Israel's ultranationalist Gush Emunim are building a new settlement named Beth-El. They claim that 120 Jewish families are waiting to move into the settlement, nine miles north of Jerusalem, in territory that Israel has occupied since the 1967 war. There are plans for schools, a religious study center, an industrial area and even a holiday resort...
Esau was the hunger, the simple, direct son. I preferred the imaginative one, the smooth, clever Jacob who sat in my tent watching the rages of Isaac turn first on the son within himself, the pitiful kitten fathered by a lion, careful of its stride, watching slow rage then turn on us like the thunder of winter sleet driving in from the mountains. So it wasn't for Jacob alone I schemed to steal Esau's blessing, laughing, giddy, a tenor different from Abraham's hard laugh...
...importance cannot be photographed." So one of the messages of the show is clear: in the judgment of MOMA?the first American museum to treat photography systematically as an art and perhaps the most powerful taste-forming museum in the country?the documentary or "concerned" tradition, which ran from Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine through figures like Henri Cartier-Bresson, Margaret Bourke-White and W. Eugene Smith, has petered...