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ALTHOUGH REALISM of this sort constitutes a major portion of pre-Raphaelite art, there are only a few examples in the current exhibition organized by a Fine Arts graduate student, Beth Mandelbaum. For "Triumph of the Innocents" William Hunt travelled to Palestine to find precisely the right road for his representation of the flight from Egypt. Yet, ironically, for all the cherubic children and floating bubbles that accompany the Christ child, in this particular painting the meticulously executed landscape is barely visible. Grenville Winthrop, who donated this pre-Raphaelite collection to the Fogg in 1943, showed a marked preference...
...return to the situation that existed prior to the Six-Day War is highly unlikely. The city was divided into two armed camps, its natural fabric torn by barricades, barbed wire and a guarded checkpoint at the Mandelbaum Gate, its two sectors closed to each other more effectively than East and West Berlin. Moreover, there is still some question about Jordan's right to the Old City. In 1948, as the 26-year British mandate over Palestine ended, King Abdullah of Trans-Jordan seized the West Bank of the Jordan River and the Old City while the Jews were...
...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...