Word: medievales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Menachem Kasher was a boy of 15 in Warsaw, he was already writing articles on Hebrew scholarship. After he became a rabbi (at 18), he began collecting ancient and medieval manuscripts of the Jewish sacred scrolls. In 1927 he brought out the first volume of the Torah Shelemah (the...
Ivanhoe. Sir Walter Scott's novel made into a rousing medieval horse opera; with Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine (TIME, Aug. 4).
Walter Kaiser uses about the same approach in his piece on Cezanne, Aix-en-Provence. The meter he choses (unconsciously or not) contributes powerfully to his thoughts on imponderable nature, giving balance and clearness to the total meaning. Tending towards obscurity, Robert Layzer presents a tribute to She Voyages which...
Ivanhoe. Sir Walter Scott's novel made into a rousing medieval horse opera; with Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine (TIME, Aug. 4).
This may read like a pastiche of Sir Walter Scott and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, but it was a real, and not an unusual incident in the lives of Europe's 12th century Crusaders in Palestine.* They were movers of history. Their expeditions wrenched Western Europe from...