Word: solomons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Queen of Sheba's Nightmare is a worldly-wise little story in which the Queen is persuaded by Satan that the rapturous "Song" that King Solomon has just sung to her is the same one he has sung to every other woman. This fable of woman's mingled love and suspicion of flattery makes one wish that Author Russell's artistic powers were up to the standard of his intelligence. The moral (for ladies only): Better be fooled by a man than put wise by the Devil...
...Reform group decided not to follow the Northern Presbyterians (TIME, June 6) in putting women in the pulpit, and voted to defer the issue for at least a year. It would widen the gap between the Reform and the Conservative and Orthodox branches of Judaism, and, said Rabbi Solomon B. Freehof of Pittsburgh, would be "too great and too needless a break with tradition...
Last week Giacometti's steadily growing reputation got a great push forward with simultaneous full-dress retrospective shows of his works in two of the world's leading art capitals. Two whole floors of New York City's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum were given over to a full-sweep display of Giacometti's work from 1925 to the present. In London 37 Giacometti sculptures plus some of his most recent works, oils and sketches, assembled by the British Arts Council, won high praise even from London's Times, which expressed "unstinted gratitude . . . for a major...
Edinburgh (Aug. 21-Sept. 10) will have as bulky a line-up as ever with the BBC Symphony, the Berlin, New York and London Royal Philharmonic orchestras, the Glyndebourne opera, an all-.star trio (Pianist Solomon, Violinist Zino Francescatti, Cellist Pierre Founder), plus a score of others...
...eclipse will be visible only in a narrow strip of the earth's surface beginning in the Indian Ocean and extending east across Ceylon into the Pacific Ocean north of the Solomon Islands. The maximum totality will be seven minutes, seven and nine-tenths seconds, the longest since 717 A.D. Not until 2150 A.D. will another eclipse be that long, Sinton said...