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...handicapped. We all need to move in." The sanctuary, into which people on the street can freely gaze, has movable pews, a movable altar and a 2,175-pipe German organ that stands like a sculpture on one wall. Pastor Peterson persuaded premiere Sculptress Louise Nevelson, a Russian Jew, to design the interior of a small chapel, for which she made five white-on-white wood sculptures and a white-and-gold Nevelsonian crucifix...
Tree-trimming is simply lots of fun. Now it strikes me as ironic that during my high school days, I was unfailingly assigned the task of decorating the tree at work, despite the fact I was the only Jew in the office. Maybe it rubbed off; now I spend my pre-Christmas days rushing from one friend's house to another helping to trim any tree in sight. Once I was able to decorate three trees in one afternoon--a North America record, as far as I know...
...horrifying. By the time Schwartz reached 30 his center could no longer hold. He had started to drink heavily. His marriage broke up. One day in 1947, suddenly and finally, he left Harvard, convinced of his double exile from the American Dream: as a poet and as a Jew...
...solidity. In fact, his greatest paintings were rarely the work of a simple realist. For example, The Meeting, 1854, showing Courbet's encounter with his patron Alfred Bruyas and a manservant on the road near Montpellier, was based on a woodcut of two bourgeois meeting the Wandering Jew; but its poses (oddly ritualized for a "realist" work) may carry an esoteric reference to Masonry. Nevertheless, Courbet seemed a monster of high animal spirits, rooting like a boar for sustenance in the gray rocks of his native Ornans-a man of the people (in reality, the son of a well...
...clothes and enjoys his presidential perquisites-including nine official residences, which he shares with his wife Jihan, 43. One of his homes is in Mit Abu el Kom. There he dons a peasant gallabiya to relax. He is as devout a Muslim as Israel's Begin is a Jew-his forehead bears a mark from touching it so often to the ground in prayer...