Word: jerusalem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...holy city of Jerusalem last week, Palestine's destructive factions were considering at least one purely constructive project: a Jordan Valley Authority. The plan had been carefully worked out by leading U.S. authorities on irrigation and hydroelectric power. Zionists saw it as a way to make desolate Palestine the populous, fertile country it was in Bible times...
While King David ruled in Jerusalem, a tall, strapping Egyptian general, named Unjebanenjebet began to have intimations of mortality. Like any Egyptian noble, what concerned him most was the proper accouterments for his journey to the Land of the Dead. His Pharaoh, Psousennes, who ruled at Tanis, near present-day Port Said, had assigned him a burial chamber in the wall of his own royal tomb. But the next essential, a proper stone sarcophagus, was hard to find...
Bernstein: Jeremiah Symphony (St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein conducting, Nan Merriman, soloist; Victor, 6 sides). The Kid Wonder and a mezzo-soprano destroy Jerusalem. Performance: good...
Alexei's other activities in behalf of Holy Communist Russia include close contacts through the Middle East. Last summer he made a state visit to his fellow Patriarchs of Alexandria, Jerusalem and Antioch. Thus Stalin, who is already playing footie with the Muslems of the Middle East, has also got a means of influencing the Levantine Orthodox Christians...
...thought about at the time: a small red flame . . . relit before the . . . doors of a tabernacle; the flame which the old knights saw from their tombs, which they saw put out; that flame burns again for other soldiers, far from home, farther in heart, than Acre or Jerusalem. It could not have been lit but for the builders and the tragedians, and there I found it this morning, burning anew among the old stones...