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Miss Levertov's most recent volume of poetry, The Jacob's Ladder, shows a preoccupation with the problem of communication. Not only is this her major theme, but she also sees communication as her primary duty as a poet. Good poetry, she says in "A Common Ground...
...Ambassador to the United Nations, New York's Senator Jacob Javits...
...audience that the Democratic Party had won its majority position "because it is a lively party . . . because it gives the idea of change and progress," and he urged the Republicans to strive for a consensus "upon the fundamental purposes and interests of our party." New York's Senator Jacob Javits called upon the G.O.P. to work out "positive programs" and "long-range plans" to put before the nation. Oregon's Governor Mark Hatfield declared that the Republican Party "must offer a youthful, new-idea approach . . . must look to the future, with emphasis on ingenuity...
...archaeologists' interpretation of the newly-discovered site proves to be correct, then the altar and sacred oak where the patriarchs Abraham and Jacob worshipped could have been there as early as the 19th century...
Shechem is the first city mentioned in Bible; when Abraham and Jacob visited it, the city was a stronghold of an empire ruled from Egypt. It was during this early era at the very beginning of what is called the "Hyksos" age (13th century B.C.) that Shechem's inhabitants enclosed the sacred place within a large courtyard, with rooms for priests and pilgrims adjoining it. They also erected a fortification wall outside it to put the sacred area within the confines of the city...