Word: jerusalem
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...angels before its assumption into heaven. Below (see overleaf), Manzù evokes scenes of death from the sacred history of the church-Abel clubbed by his brother Cain, St. Joseph waiting calmly for the ebbing of life, the first Christian martyr St. Stephen being stoned by a Jerusalem mob, Gregory VII dying on his papal throne. The agony of modern death is shown as well: a Bergamo partisan hanged upside down by the Fascists, Pope John praying in the Vatican Palace before his passion, the body of a mother watched by her weeping child, or an incontrollably tumbling human figure...
Drill a Little Deeper. Understandably eager for oil, little Jordan celebrated the spudding in of Mecom's first well in the olive groves and rolling hills north of Hebron. Mecom was banqueted by King Hussein, in turn entertained Jordanian officials with a dinner party at the new Jerusalem Intercontinental Hotel on the Mount of Olives. The jaunty young King spilled oil ceremonially over the rig, and a dozen lambs were slaughtered and sent to the poor in a good-luck ritual...
Occasional Winks. Chase took the boycott in stride-and so have most of the firms that have been banned from the 40 million-customer Arab market. The 40 firms owned by British Tycoon Charles Clore were barred last year when Clore and Sir Isaac Wolfson lent Jerusalem $2,000,000 to build a new town hall, and the U.S.'s Witco Chemical was blacklisted after it bought a chemical firm that had an executive who owned a piece of an Israeli oil company. The Arabs offer reinstatement to firms that stop their dealings with Israel, but the Israelis have...
Despite his prediction of the "New Jerusalem," Swedenborg died a Lutheran, and was buried according to the rites of the Swedish church. In 1784, his followers organized a society to propagate his teachings, which have influenced such disparate figures as Balzac, Emerson, Lincoln, and Helen Keller. Today there are more than 7,000 loyal Swedenborgians in the U.S. (and about 45,000 elsewhere) who belong to three churches. The biggest concentration of them is in the Philadelphia suburb of Bryn Athyn; there, most of the town's population of 1,100 belong to the General Church...
Courage & Zest. Last week, another Swedenborgian church, the General Convention of the New Jerusalem in the U.S.A., held its 141st annual meeting in Philadelphia. About 200 of the faithful showed up to elect new officers and discuss the continuing relevance of the Swedish sage. "His really great mind relates faith to the world of science," said Dr. Dorothea Harvey, associate professor of religion at Lawrence College. Says Adolph Liebert of Pittsburgh, a research and development engineer: "He has given me a perspective on what life is for and how to use it. He gives me the courage and zest...