Word: leviticus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Guilt Complexes. Toynbee and other academic critics seem most concerned by advertising's outsized influence on the cultural and living standards of society. "It's like the goat in Leviticus," says San Francisco's John Hoefer of Hoefer, Dieterich & Brown. "Everyone's atoning for his own guilt complexes about having more than his parents or his grandparents. Most people realize that half the world is starving while we're sitting pretty...
...Book (to 'hold the Dead Sea Scrolls), and the Billy Rose Art Garden, designed by Sculptor Isamu Noguchi. The Art Garden already has Billy's own private collection, which Israel finally accepted as a gift last year after deciding that it would not be a violation of Leviticus 26:1 to have graven images around as long as no one bowed down unto them...
...Pressured to withdraw the gift or shift the sculpture display to a city of less religious importance for Orthodox Jews, Rose threatened that unless the sculpture goes to Jerusalem as planned, he will cut off all of his gifts to Israel. But some Talmudic scholars sided with Rose, quoted Leviticus 26:1 to prove that statues are permissible so long as nobody worships them: Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto...