Word: samaritanism
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...expedition led by G. Ernest Wright, Packman Professor of Divinity and Curator of the Semitic Museum, has uncovered the ruins of an ancient Samaritan temple near Schechem, Jordan...
...temple, which was found beneath a recently discovered Roman temple, is thought to have been built during the Fourth Century B.C. It was probably the most important Samaritan shrine until it was destroyed...
Eleven days in the intensive-care unit at Los Angeles' Good Samaritan Hospital nearly did the old movie hero in. "They kept bringing in all those cardiac cases," growled John Wayne, 57. "I was ready to shoot my way out." Hastily, they moved him to another floor to finish recovering from surgery for the removal of a lung abscess. Finally, 10 lbs. (and several shades of tan) lighter, the Duke strode from the sickbed into a brigade of reporters. Had it been cancer? A heart attack? "There's nothing to that," he roared, ripping open his shirt...
...Hammarskjold. "A poet always uses the same vocabulary," says Chagall, and his translucent sonnet displays his familiar metaphors of thin-lipped cow, floating patriarch and spiritual chicken. In Pocantico Hills, N.Y., the preserve of the Rockefellers, the Union Church received a stained-glass Chagall window depicting the good Samaritan, to be dedicated by the family to the memory of Philanthropist John D. Rockefeller...
...Yorkers fail to aid fellow citizens who are being mauled by thugs on streets and subways. Yet no matter how cowardly New Yorkers may be, the fact is that under the law anyone who intervenes in an attack exposes himself to the possibility of severe penalties. If a good Samaritan repels an attacker too aggressively, or inadvertently jumps in on the wrong side, he may wind up under arrest for assault...