Word: lucases
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Glenn E. Lucas, the associate dean for advancement and planning at UCSB's College of Engineering, said Narayanamurti's connections in business and government allow him to inte- grate science with these fields.
Christopher Lucas is an American journalist living in Jerusalem and looking for a story. He has quit his "comfortable and rather prestigious newspaper job" and now scrambles as a free-lancer. This job change has left him unsettled: "It was so hard to get it right, working without the assignment...
Another problem Lucas faces is that everyone he meets in Jerusalem asks him about his religion. The question troubles him because he can answer it only in the past tense: "My father was a nonpracticing Jew. My mother was a sentimental Catholic." What he has inherited from his parents continues...
Early in the story Lucas hears of Dr. Pinchas Obermann, who treats victims of the Jerusalem Syndrome. The journalist hears the term from a friend and asks, "Which is?" The reply: "Which is coming here and God gives you a mission. To Christians like your good self, only crazy ones...
This passage captures the ironic, skeptical attitude Lucas tries to maintain toward religious enthusiasms and mania. But he is also emotionally drawn to the subject. He starts research on a book about the Jerusalem Syndrome just as a dramatic instance of it--a plan, no less, to blow up the...