Word: oj
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Your Sept. 10 footnote reference to my book on Professor Toynbee's A Study oj History makes it appear that I am angry with Toynbee because his ''vast general categories of civilization and his characterization of Jewish culture as 'fossilized relics' fail to explain the extraordinary phenomenon of Jewish survival." This misrepresents me. I am angry with Toynbee because I believe (and think I have proved in my book) that his views on Judaism and the Jewish people are heavily tinctured with antiSemitism. His scholarship in the Jewish and some other fields does hot move...
...Cinema review of The View from Pompey's Head I note the use of the word "peckerhead." I have my own definition of this word-will you kindly provide me with yours? PERRY W. PARKER Major, U.S.A.F. (ret.) Palmdale, Calif. ¶ According to Partridge's Dictionary oj Slang and TIME'S movie reviewer, peckerhead means a kind of beak-nosed eager beaver...
...depends on which dictionary you use If you look it up in one dictionary, Eiluph'mei (I Love Me) means the Land of Liberty. In another, it is called the Land of License. Weiheit'tiu (We Hate You) in one dictionary is said to be the State oj New Democracy. If you look it up in another, it means Land of Tyranny...
...American dailies. The alumni roster includes such famous big-city papers as the New York Times, the New York Herald Tribune, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Baltimore Sun, the Washington Post, the .Philadelphia Inquirer, the Atlanta Journal, the Los Angeles Examiner, the Seattle Times, the New York Journal oj Commerce, the Chicago Daily News, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Christian Science Monitor, the Cincinnati Enquirer, and the Houston Post...
When a priest and a sinner become fond of each other, an account of their genial tilting is apt to make a readable story. Such bestselling authors as Giovanni Gua reschi (The Little World, oj Don Camilla), Bruce Marshall (The World, the Flesh, and Father Smith), and A. J. Cronin (The Keys of the Kingdom) have made the most of it. Now enters Dutch Novelist Arie van der Lugt with The Crazy Doctor, to show that the everlasting contest goes on in Holland too. It is, after all, a universal story, its interest limited only by the writer...