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...Monumental Islamic Calligraphy," brought to the museum at the request of then-NELC Professor Annemarie Schimmel, and met with Mrs. Joy Ungerleider-Mayerson who later established the Dorot Professorship which Stager now holds. We were honored be trained for "The City of David: Discoveries From the Excavations" by Tamar Shiloh, the widow of Yigal Shiloh who excavated the site. The Semitic Museum was a small place where visitors could enjoy an intimacy not found in other places. The wonderful comments in the guestbook testify to their feelings and to the good publicity which Harvard gained...
Take the Palestinian attack two weeks ago on a bus bound from Jerusalem to the West Bank Jewish settlement of Shiloh. Dov Weiner, 11, was returning home from therapy for a gunshot wound in his shoulder sustained during an October bus attack. In the gunfire on Jan. 14, the boy was hit again, this time in the leg. Later that night, Jewish men drove to the home of Riad Malki, a Palestinian hard-liner, pelted the house with stones, broke several windows and spray-painted Stars of David on all the entrances. Although Malki's house is under Israeli surveillance...
SPENCE + LILA by Bobbie Ann Mason (Harper & Row; $12.95). The author of Shiloh and Other Stories offers up a love story about a Kentucky farmer and his ailing wife so pure and enduring that it might have been carved with a jackknife...
SPENCE + LILA by Bobbie Ann Mason (Harper & Row; $12.95). The author of Shiloh and Other Stories offers a lean novel about a Kentucky farmer and his ailing wife, a love story so pure and enduring that it might have been carved with a jackknife on an old tree...
Ulysses Grant sat on the porch and marched armies across his memory. He called them up through cocaine and morphine, through the pain in his throat, and into a perfect clarity of prose. He fought the war minutely all over again: Shiloh and Vicksburg, the slaughters of the Wilderness, Cold Harbor, where men were so sure of death that they pinned their names and addresses on their jackets for easy identification when they fell. And at last, the mythy set piece of Appomattox, where Lee came as the elegant last cavalier, and Grant, a shabby cigar stub...