Word: jerusalem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...choking clouds around the explorers. In one, amidst the midden, was a vulture's nest. With unliterary impartiality, the vultures had used fragments of parchment to complete the nest. On one fragment 16 verses of the Book of Exodus were written in Hebrew script that was current in Jerusalem about 130 A.D. This and other evidence convinced Israeli scholars that the cave had been a refuge of last-ditch followers of the self-styled Messiah Bar Kochba, who led the Jews in a desperate three-year revolt against the Roman Empire...
...room Manhattan mansion on East 93rd Street with sculptures, now owns some 50-odd pieces that form a handsome compendium of sculpture over the past 130 years. Rose had no plans for parting with any of it until last year, when he got a letter from the mayor of Jerusalem, inquiring about his ideas for the collection and informing him that a local art show had drawn 600,000 visitors. "That spelled hunger," Billy says, "real hunger for art. Why, the total population is only around 2,000,000. It's like 60 million people showing...
Last fall the America-Israel Cultural Foundation helped arrange a meeting between Rose and Bezalel's boyish, brilliant director, Karl Katz. Katz agreed that the hunger was there, and gave one cogent reason: there is hardly any modern art displayed in the Middle East. Argued Katz: "From Jerusalem you'd have to go west as far as Rome, east as far as Tokyo, and south forever, to find a decent modern collection. This one will fill a tremendous gap." He added that the museum owns 25 acres of barren ground in the geographic center of expanding Jerusalem. "When...
Maze for Money. Once committed, Rose plunged into the project with characteristic energy, planned to make his sculpture's new home in Jerusalem the best money could buy. He retained Isamu Noguchi, a sculptor who doubles in landscape design, to lay out a sloping, five-acre garden adjoining the National Museum where the collection will be displayed on natural rock pedestals in a maze of stone walls, cypresses and jasmine bushes. "When Isamu came up with the maze idea," Billy says, "I knew what he meant right away. I'm an old carney man myself...
...JERUSALEM, Feb 2--Shooting stopped on the Israeli-Syrian frontier Tuesday, but a report that Egyptian troops have lined up on the southern flank of Israel increased tension...