Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exaggerates the difficulties to the point where, for sheer ambivalence, his tales rival even the parables of Kafka. Translated into the lingo of current ideological strife, the Old Testament acquires an applicability most have long given up suspecting. To take his own best illustration, Kolakowski turns the story of Jacob and Esau into a lesson on the ways of fabricating political truths. The naive realist who believes in the objectivity of his birthright cannot defend it against the pragmatic idealist who knows that truth lives in opinions, not in acts, and who can manipulate surrounding thought accordingly. Other tales Kolakowski...
...program has been criticized on Capitol Hill by Republican Senators Jacob Javits of New York, Robert Taft Jr. of Ohio, and others. Critics are upset by reports of abuses and by the fact that the benefits are being paid by taxpayers and not the coal companies. The Government will pay lifetime benefits for any miner who applies up to next Jan. 1; after that, the coal-mining companies are supposed to pay any new claimants. But the companies may even avoid doing that. Carl Perkins, a Democratic Congressman from Kentucky, is talking about submitting a bill that would delay...
Burlesque isn't dead as long as Sally Rand can lift a shocking pink ostrich-feather fan. At a benefit for Phoenix House, the Manhattan drug rehabilitation center, Sally, 69, got most of the midnight whistles from the Roseland crowd studded with names, from Senator Jacob Javits (in black tie) to ex-Evangelist Marjoe (in jeans...
Preliminary figures from the survey, which began Monday, indicate that it would take about a thousand flights with radiopharmaceuticals to accumulate the exposure you would get from one trip to the doctor for X-rays, according to Dr. Jacob Shapiro, radiological health and safety engineer to the University Health Services and director of the Logan Airport survey...
...appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to defend the Administration's bombing campaign in Cambodia, he was greeted by a storm of opposition. The bombing, declared Democrat Edmund Muskie of Maine, "is without justification in policy, in the Constitution or in the law." Demanded New York Republican Jacob Javits: "Is this a commitment forever? When does...