Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another dimension of that orientation is sketched by Religion Scholar Jacob Needleman, author of The New Religions and, like Thompson, a cartographer of the revival of mysticism. Men lost a certain humility, Needleman says, when they abandoned the medieval idea of geocentrism-the belief that the earth is surrounded by ever widening spheres of planets, stars and finally God. Copernicus and Galileo dislodged the earth from the astronomical center of the universe, but Needleman argues that geocentrism "was never intended only as an astronomical theory. It was meant to communicate that human existence is but a tiny part...
...contemporaries. On top of all that, he was evidently a likable, unpretentious man of the world, gifted in languages, poetry and science, a fit partner for any woman on the dance floor, and any man's match in the billiard room. Who was the man? Why, Jacob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy...
ATLANTIC CITY IN THE FALL is like a whore house on Sunday morning, the denuded neon playgrounds of merchandising America. It is the ghost town of the Penthouse pleasure seekers stinking with the excrements of honky-tonk commercialism. The King of Marvin Gardens, written by Jacob Brackman and directed by Bob Rafelson, tortures Atlantic City's dying glory into a monopoly game of cultural dimensions, the bankrupt dead-end of the American dream...
...pious legend? Not necessarily, says Israeli Botanist Yehuda Feliks. Writing in a monumental new set of reference books called the Encyclopedia Judaica, Feliks identifies Jacob's secret as a keen perception of the laws of heredity. (The peeled branches were just window dressing.) Jacob apparently knew from a dream that the hybrids (white sheep and black goats that carried recessive genes of "spottedness") matured sexually earlier than the pure monochromes in the flock. He mated the hybrids, and their recessive genes emerged to produce a maximum of spotted offspring in each generation. He set aside the pure monochromes, unbred...
...Woolf. She was among the great innovative novelists; she had the enormous courage to trust her private imaginings and to interpret them even though those visions were sometimes insane. In the same sunburst year of 1922 when Ulysses and The Waste Land appeared, she published her first major novel, Jacob's Room. It was hailed for the beauty of its imagery and the uniquely flexible prose that marked all her work...