Word: jericho
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...steamer still chugs to and fro, a literal-minded divine long ago built a grassy, 60-ft.-long scale model of the Holy Land. It is now much joked about, and years ago, according to Novelist Theodore Morrison, Rudyard Kipling toured Palestine Park and tripped over a boulder labeled "Jericho." He went away muttering that there was "something wrong" with Chautauqua, though he could not figure out just what...
DIED. Harry Chapin, 38, folk-rock singer and composer whose poignant, bittersweet ballads about dashed dreams and broken promises included the hits Taxi (1972), W.O.L.D. (1974) and The Cat's in the Cradle (1974); of injuries received when his car was struck by a trailer truck; in Jericho, N.Y. The son of Big Band Drummer James Chapin, he performed for a while during the '60s with a group whose other members were his father and Brothers Tom and Stephen. A social activist and crusader against world hunger, Chapin often organized and appeared in benefit concerts for environmental issues...
This talented young writer-director (who won an Emmy with his gritty TV movie The Jericho Mile) has a gift for action and street-snarl dialogue. But he is fatally drawn to making big statements. And repeating them. And acting them out -to make sure his point has penetrated the most thickly armored brain in the house. But all he really has to say is that golden oldie, beloved by people trying to tart up adventure stories: the one about a man having to get down to nothing, to look into the abyss of nonbeing, if he is going...
...time, the association branched out by arranging dances, outinigs, picnics and speeches. "But the dues always remainded the same, 10 cents a week," says Johnson, who reports that the organization is still active. Other clubs included the Good Samaritans, the Galiean Fishermen, the Household of Ruth, the Heroines of Jericho, the Harvard Lodge of Oddfellows, and the Elks. Other Blacks congregated around the many churches in the community, including the African Methodist Episcopal Church, which served a large West Indian population. And for politically active Blacks, Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) served as a forum. Garvey...
...insisting is that we Israelis should have the right to settle there, that we should not be considered foreigners, and that we should have the right to keep our forces there for our self-defense. I want to be able to go with my children and grandchildren to Jericho even as [West Bank Arabs] go to Natanya [in Israel]. The Arabs understand this. When the Egyptian delegation was here, they asked us to take them to the Horns of Hattin, where the Crusaders were defeated by Saladin. I can see their point...