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...that Stager had studied at the Hebrew University and that he had been favored in the assignment of sites to excavate by Israeli archaeological authorities who wouldn't have so favored him if he were anti-Semitic. Or, to quote Cross' strange characterization, Stager's "whole history is philo-Judaic...

Author: By Martin Peretz, | Title: Cleaning Out the Mailbag: The Semitic Museum | 1/5/1994 | See Source »

Stager's whole history is philo-Judaic. Part of his graduate training was taken at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; he was a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies of the Hebrew University. In his early years he was a beloved protege of Benjamin Mazar, the doyen of Israeli archaeologists. Stager was awarded one of he largest and richest of the pristine archaeological sites left in Israel by the Israeli Council on Archaeology. To pair Stager with Lowell is unconscionable, and Peretz should publicly apologize, or in any case repudiate the anti-Semitic interpretation generally and most plausibly given...

Author: By Frank MOORE Cross, | Title: A Reply to Martin Peretz | 12/13/1993 | See Source »

...successors. It means sustaining the new center of Jewish civilization, where many survivors found refuge and on whose success Jewish survival now depends. Anti-Zionists, however -- particularly those of the left -- discovered that while physically or morally arming those bent on the annihilation of Israel, they could pose as philo-Semites with a show of anti-Nazism and a nod to the Holocaust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holocaust: Memory And Resolve | 5/3/1993 | See Source »

...clown seltzer. But even the serious exhibitions provide the tang of astonishment. A display of 58 machines -- from the 1835 thaumatrope to tomorrow's Sony GV-8 Video Walkman -- pulses with the gimcrack genius of those anonymous technicians who gave artists the tools to dream with. The spirit of Philo T. Farnsworth, boy pioneer of TV, rides again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Twin Shrines to the Silver Screen | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

...snake and a mongoose reprehensible, but applaud the climactic spectacle of two brawling men making hamburger out of each other's bodies. It says something about the American body aesthetic that Eastwood's previous picture, the innocently droll Bronco Billy, failed at the box office while Philo and Clyde, the Ape Man and the Ape, have moviegoers queuing and cheering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Comedy: Big Bucks, Few Yuks | 1/12/1981 | See Source »

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