Word: keren
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...AMERICAN COMMONWEALTH, by Louis Keren. The Washington correspondent of the London Times casts a sympathetic eye on the U.S. political system. TO BROOKLYN WITH LOVE, by Gerald Green. The excitement of Brownsville during the Depression is evoked in this memoir disguised as a novel by the author of The Last Angry...
...AMERICAN COMMONWEALTH, by Louis Keren. The Washington correspondent of the London Times casts a sympathetic eye on the U.S. political system...
Muddling Through. How is Keren's Uncle Sam-looking more and more like a mellowed John Bull-making out in the hectic second half of the 20th century? Beset by technological revolution and Negro unrest at home and by costly war abroad, he is still doing quite well for an old guy. In a two-out-of-three-cheers mood, Heren defends the basics of U.S. foreign policy by pointing out that "great powers have always accepted the necessity to intervene." While reminding Americans that their concern reaches from "the moon and stars down to the gutters...
...Scriptures underwent many changes at the hands of the early scribes, so much so that in the 4th century, Pope Damasus commissioned the Bible scholar Jerome to do a definitive version. In his version, the Vulgate, Jerome translated Keren, the Hebrew word for "ray, horn" as "cornuta," Latin for "horns." Thus, "when Moses came down from the mount Sinai, he held the two tables of the testimony: and he knew not that his face was horned from the conversation of the Lord" (Exodus 34:29}. While scholars have since determined that Moses was not literally horned but rather surrounded...