Word: nahum
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...Jewish leaders, Dr. Nahum Goldmann, president of the World Jewish Congress, thanked the Chancellor for his assurances that young Germans would be taught the true story of the Nazi past, but wryly expressed some concern for the future: "We are not worried about Germany so long as Chancellor Adenauer is alive. But peoples change, and what today is small can be large tomorrow...
...Party was the refusal of popular ex-Premier Moshe Sharett to make the race. Mapai put up a second-string candidate instead. He was beaten. The strong right-wing Herut Party ganged up with minor leftist parties in Ben-Gurion's own coalition to elect 75-year-old Nahum Nir, onetime head of the Polish Waiters' Union (who boasts that in 1906 in Warsaw he led the world's first successful strike against tipping...
Shakespeare's own native England was in no hurry to serve him properly; and for generations the plays were offered in the "improved" versions of Nahum Tate, Colley Cibber, Thomas Shadwell, David Garrick and the like...
Shakespeare's own native England was in no hurry to serve him properly; and for generations the plays were offered in the "improved" versions of Nahum Tate, Colley Cibber, Thomas Shadwell, David Garrick and the like...
...Young Lions (20th Century-Fox). "And the sword shall devour thy young lions," wrote the prophet Nahum. His words, affixed in epigraph to Irwin Shaw's bestseller of 1948, seemed no more than intellectual makeweight in what proved to be a light package. But the film version of the novel, as conceived and produced by the late Al Lichtman (TIME, March 3), strikes deeper into human substance and rises more often to the epic height of its adage and its argument. Epic is plainly what Moviemaker Lichtman hoped to achieve-a sort of Europead elaborated out of the decisive...