Word: pillar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Judging from Lessing Rosenwald's opinion on Israel [Feb. 25], it's quite clear he is not one of the many millions of Jews who have been pushed from pillar to post throughout the centuries. Living in freedom and abundance, Mr. Rosenwald misconstrues the basic ideologies of Jewish consciousness, religion and nationalism. He probably doesn't know that synagogues are built for those who are well situated and have to be reminded about their Jewish heritage. But the starved and homeless Jew is quite aware of his heritage. No one is asking Mr. Rosenwald to integrate himself...
...aluminum-covered ceiling slopes upward toward a two-story interior patio with a white marble island surrounded by a jet-fed black glass pool. A glass-sided stairway leading to the second floor is supported at pinpoints on a white Alabama marble cantilever protruding from a structural steel pillar that swells and tapers below like one of Brancusi's Endless Columns, expands above to become a wedge-shaped hanging wall. On the second floor the concave walls, sculptured columns and baffles-including one wall that stops just short of the floor- gently pull the gallerygoer from one painting...
Horvath's departure did not halt discussion of a resolution condemning Russia for her intervention in Hungary. Even Burma, once a pillar of Asian neutralism, joined in the attack. "There, speaking of Hungary, but for the grace of God go we," said Burmese Delegate...
...danger . . . of a plunge into a new European experiment, motivated by anti-Americanism and by hostility to Asian-African nationalism. On the other hand, the Economist went on there is now "a fresh chance, which should be seized, to erect on this side of the Atlantic the sturdy pillar which the Americans themselves have long wished to see bracing this end of the ocean bridge...
...gave her hostage to fortune in their one child. Wells, who grew up to write a novel while at Harvard, was killed in action as a U.S. officer in World War II, at the age of 27. In his childhood he was shuttled between expensive pillar and posh post (King George V "saluted" him as he rode in London's Rotten Row) until he came to look at his famous father with a cool eye. He would brace himself to lecture him on the evils of drink only to find the unpredictable Hal had become his sober, fascinating self...