Word: scrolled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...forces of scholars are probably even now forming up, all determined to ignore Eliot's advice, promulgated over many critical, rigorous years in the Criterion, that a work of art must manifest its own significance. Ahead lie long years of scholastic second guesses, tracing the skill beneath the scroll and the doodles that underlie The Waste Land's grand design...
...builder of India's Taj Mahal. Among other exports on exhibit are Chinese silks found in Arab tombs in Africa and early carved cinnebar lacquerware, lent by a Japanese temple. But it was in defiance of Mongol tastes that one of the greatest of China's arts-scroll painting-made the largest advance of all. The most inventive Chinese painters, the wen-jen, or literary men, withdrew from the court, preferring to paint and write poetry for a small coterie in the country...
...ample opportunity to practice that belief. His bushy white beard flapping in the wind, he dashed through sniper fire in Arab-held Jerusalem to become the first Israeli soldier to reach the Wailing Wall during last year's Six-Day War with the Arabs. Clutching the Torah scroll and ram's horn that are the symbols of his religion, he also led his troops to the tomb of Rachel in Bethlehem and to the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron. He would have been the first Israeli to cross into Gaza had not an Arab tank shell blasted...
Obeying Jewish religious laws means added expense. El Al loses 60 days a year by not operating in or out of Tel Aviv on Sabbath and religious holidays. Each plane must carry 400 lbs. of additional pots and plates for separate meat and dairy dishes. Soon, even a Torah scroll may be carried by each El Al plane. "We enjoy our Jewish-ness," says an airline official in Tel Aviv. "We are going to make the most...
...looked even nattier than he does each Sunday when, as St. Paul's head usher, he greets parishoners at the door. Silvery hair and glasses gleaming, he bounced from table to table greeting friends and allies. With a broad smile, he accepted flowers from a Democratic committee-woman, a scroll from the Michael A. Sullivan Memorial Associates (a continuing Sullivan campaign organization), a chair from the committee of friends giving the dinner, and a fire-helmet from the Cambridge Fire Department. "It's his smile; he'd win it on his smile alone," one woman said as he beamed...