Word: sons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...already bound his bride, came with my impulsive ways, offering water to the servant and his camel. Why shouldn't I offer? I wasn't afraid. My tongue was a lithe muscle to welcome or harass. I wasn't afraid to come a thousand miles to marry the son of Abraham, join his caravan of vagabonds...
When we were most apart, we sat together on his purple rug listening to the bleat of lams and ewes, listening for our children. He listened for Esau. His beloved Esau. The elder son. As though first were sum of all the parts. As though life were nothing more than a transparent fluid for passing on the seed of Abraham. And he was jealous for that, content to be the shadow of an eagle as I never...
Esau was the hunger, the simple, direct son. I preferred the imaginative one, the smooth, clever Jacob who sat in my tent watching the rages of Isaac turn first on the son within himself, the pitiful kitten fathered by a lion, careful of its stride, watching slow rage then turn on us like the thunder of winter sleet driving in from the mountains. So it wasn't for Jacob alone I schemed to steal Esau's blessing, laughing, giddy, a tenor different from Abraham's hard laugh...
BORN. To George Harrison, 35, last of the ex-Beatles to father a child; and Olivia Arias, 30, his Mexican-American friend, who met Harrison four years ago when she worked as a secretary for his Los Angeles record company; a son; in Windsor, England. Name: Dhani, translated from Hindi as "rich person...
...genealogy is impeccable. Indeed, if anyone doubts the power of heredity, let him examine the lineage-or the books-of the Leakey family. A generation ago, the great anthropologists Louis and Mary first explored the highlands of East Africa in search of man's origins. Today their son Richard spends much of his time in further examination of sun-scorched barrens in northern Kenya. He has found enough clues to burnish the names of two families: the Leakeys and the larger tribe of Homo sapiens...