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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hyrcanus, makes an appealing Wicked Priest to some experts. He revenged himself for a Pharisee-led uprising by crucifying 800 leaders of the revolt in a single night and having their wives and children slaughtered before their dying eyes-meanwhile gratifying himself with his concubines in full sight of the victims. If he is the Wicked Priest and the community in the desert was founded by Eleazar under John Hyrcanus, the Man of the Lie might be the leader of the Pharisees who had sought to remain in Jerusalem instead of facing ascetic hardship in the desert. In any case...
...competition came from an almost unexpected source. Doug Ford, 34, a moonfaced, black-haired young pro who plays out of Lake Mahopac, N.Y.. got out of bed on the morning of the final round, remembered that he was three strokes back and decided "to go for everything in sight...
Waving his manicured forefinger at me, Vag continued. "Wherever you go, the Ivy League rites of spring surround you. The sight would be merely distastefully humorous if it were not for the sheer numbers of these primitive people. I shall never dabble in such earthy totems of the tribe...
...Johns Hopkins has never lost sight of one vital truth, that the university is its faculty and that the power of promotion and appointment must rest with the faculty itself...
...command and now faces treason charges for his published indictment of army brutality to Arabs in Algeria. "I think that it was highly desirable," General de Bollardière wrote to Servan-Schreiber, to have called attention to "the frightful danger there would be for us in losing sight, under the fallacious pretext of immediate efficacy, of the moral values that alone, until now, have been the grandeur of our civilization and of our army...