Word: mandelbaum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...concentric squares; the two outer courts must each have twelve gates, named for the twelve tribes of Israel. Curiously, it also requires that public toilets should be constructed 1,400 meters northwest of the temple-which, notes Yadin slyly, would situate the lavatories today somewhere near the old Mandelbaum Gate leading to what was Arab Jerusalem...
Those refugees who have returned, and those Arabs who remained in Israel's "New Territories," are finding that life is fast returning to normal as the Israelis demonstrate their intention to stay on. In Old Jerusalem, gone are the last remnants of the Mandelbaum Gate that stood for two decades as an ugly reminder that the Holy City was divided...
Across the demolished barriers and through the Mandelbaum Gate streamed thousands of Arabs and Jews. Old enemies were unexpectedly anxious to fraternize; long-divided friends were reunited. Flowing Arab kaffiyehs appeared in kosher cafes, and Hebrew was heard in the ancient bookstores near the Damascus Gate. Cars bearing Jordanian and Israeli license plates honked happily in monumental traffic jams. Israeli and Jordanian police, working side by side, had all they could do to keep the surging throngs of pedestrians safely on the sidewalks, and their job was made no easier by emotional Arabs who insisted on embracing each other...
...nice of the Queen to include Scottish Novelist (The Mandelbaum Gate) Muriel Spark, 45, on the New Year Honors List, naming her to the Order of the British Empire. Nice, but not nearly nice enough, complained the ladies of British letters, who regarded the O.B.E., one step from the bottom of the honors, as a damn with faint praise. Sniped Rebecca West, herself a more lofty Dame Commander of the Order: "I cannot help but think that the persons responsible for recommending the award to Muriel Spark of an O.B.E. must have been actuated by a desire to make...
...Bachelors and The Girls of Slender Means, she meticulously exposed their peculiarities and quivering insecurities. Unhappily, in this, her eighth and longest novel, Novelist Spark finally pays dearly for her indifference. She is obviously much more interested in the sights and sounds on both sides of the Mandelbaum Gate, which separates Israel and Jordan, than she is in her characters, and soon the reader discovers that he is too. Worse still, in order to shift them around, Novelist Spark resorts to a series of involved intrigues and page after page of gentle nattering. For a writer whose prose is generally...