Word: jerusalem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day a clipped English voice that has persuasively argued in many Jerusalem courtrooms replied: "With the future of our children in doubt, with our national patrimony in danger, we [Palestinian Arabs] come to you ... in the full assurance that your conscience will support us." Dark, dapper Henri Cattan, speaking for the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine, was telling U.N. what the Arabs expect of them: immediate stopping of all Jewish immigration into Palestine, setting up of an independent state in which Arabs would have a majority...
...concert soothed the savage breast of Jerusalem last week. Only a small percentage of the hundreds who besieged the big, bare movie house, Edison Hall, in the Holy City could get in. When the concert started, 15 minutes late, hundreds stood in the aisles and the passageways...
Bernstein conducted without a baton, frequently humming or singing with the orchestra. The second work was his own Jeremiah Symphony. The score of it had gone astray somewhere between Athens, Cairo and Jerusalem. Another copy arrived by air only three days before the concert. But Bernstein got the yoman orchestra through it deftly. That called for five bows. Then he played the solo part of Ravel's Piano Concerto, conducting from the piano. Some of the more critical in the audience thought they had heard better performances, but if Bernstein had played Pop! Goes the Weasel, the audience would...
...Bernstein told newsmen exuberantly: "The Palestine Orchestra is potentially one of the greatest in the world. It should make a trip to the States next fall, but first it needs two solid months of real hard work under a single conductor." He gazed dreamily out of the window of Jerusalem's modernistic Eden Hotel and mused, "I hope I can be the guy to pull that...
...JERUSALEM, May 4--Jewish underground fighters freed 251 Jewish and Arab prisoners of grim Acre prison today by blasting a hole in one of its centuries-old walls, as 15 persons died in the bloodiest outbreak of violence in the Holy Land in many weeks...