Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four Possibilities. Ever since the six-day blitz against Egypt, Israel's Minister of Religion, Dr. Samuel Cahane, has been snowed in by cables and letters from would-be pilgrims hoping to see the holy mountain while Israel still held the peninsula (Jewish travelers had been discouraged by the Egyptians). "It seems as if all the Jews in the world want to go to Mount Sinai," said Dr. Cahane. But nobody knows where Sinai is. Modern archaeologists and ancient traditions recognize four main possibilities...
...marshland sometimes known as the Sea of Reeds, which might well have been that Red Sea whose waters parted to let the Children of Israel through. Dr. Cahane backs up Dr. Mazar's theory: according to legend, he says, Sinai was not a high but a low mountain-evidence of Jehovah's willingness to descend to man's level...
...Mountain (Paramount) is a fairly interesting attempt to combine in one picture a hit and a myth. Based on the 1953 novel by France's Henri Troyat, which in turn was suggested by a 1950 plane crash in the Alps, The Mountain tells the story of an adventure that leads its adventurers to the high places of the spiritual as well as of the physical world. The adventure is intended to represent the struggle between Good and Evil, as that struggle is lived out against a symbol that expresses both the way and the goal of life: The Mountain...
Died. Floyd Buckley, 82, Broadway's oldest performing actor (he played the mustached pappy of Mountain Boy Will Stockdale in No Time for Sergeants), who started trouping in 1899 witn Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show; of an aortic aneurism suffered after his 445th straight performance in Sergeants; in New York City...
...Says she: "Those sanatoriums just don't exist any longer. With all the antibiotics, the illness has lost its peculiar quality. TBs used to be a kind of international society. It was that world of their own that I wanted to write about." The result is no Magic Mountain, but it is brilliant in its way. There has seldom been so sensual a novel written with so little eroticism or with so much effect. Lalla emerges as that strange girl who lies buried somewhere in most men's lives, the girl who was never attainable although all circumstances...