Word: jerusalem
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...advancing tourist flood spills over into Greece, the Middle East and across Asia, the first postwar hotel boom is being followed by another. Hilton opens in Athens this month with a hotel overlooking (the big word in hotel-promotion nowadays) the Acropolis. Intercontinental is building near Jerusalem's Mount of Olives on the Arab side, overlooking the old city. The Egyptian government last year launched a five-year plan to build 40 hotels. Sprinting toward the 1964 Olympics, Tokyo builders have 14 new hotels in the works. New hotels are under way or planned in such once remote spots...
...little better for the Arab nationalists. Individual states gained independence, but control was securely held by feudal monarchs or coalitions of landowners and business men who were often little more than colonial puppets. Sir Winston Churchill "invented" the state of Jordan "on a Sunday afternoon in Jerusalem." Even worse, in the Arab view, was the partition of Palestine to provide a national homeland for the Jews. Humiliation became complete in 1948, when the combined armies of the Arab countries were crushingly defeated by the Israelis...
Bedtime for Israel's most distinguished philosopher, Martin Buber, is 10 o'clock. But his 85th birthday was an exception. At the stroke of 11, some 400 students from the Hebrew University, where he taught before his retirement, paraded up Jerusalem's Lovers of Zion Street to the door of Buber's villa, carrying torches and singing in Hebrew "For Martin's a jolly good fellow." On the veranda, a pretty coed garlanded the white-whiskered Hasidic sage with flowers and soundly bussed his cheek. "What?" asked Buber with a merry twinkle. "Is there only...
...from reliance on the tradition of Jewish theology. But the price of liberty was high. Under the influence of Lessing and Kant, Moses Mendelssohn (1729-86) stripped Judaism of its supernatural quality by arguing that it was essentially a rational faith. Even the greatest of modern Jewish thinkers, Jerusalem's influential "existential humanist" Martin Buber, dramatically envisions Judaism as an encounter between the "I" of man and the "Thou" of God-and ignores the Jewish heritage of tradition...
...demoniacal urge to grow and an equally demoniacal urge to battle an opposing crowd. Rummaging through history, Canetti cites some gory examples of crowd behavior to support his thesis. Crowds that form for the most exalted reasons can become the most murderous. Typical was an Easter service in Jerusalem in 1834. The faithful flocked to the church by the thousands to see the descent of the Holy Fire. When the "miraculous" fire appeared, people were in a frenzy to get to it. In the turmoil, two crowds squared off and started senselessly slaughtering each other until the church floor...