Word: theodor
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Years ago writers speculated that New Testament accounts of Jesus Christ could have been patterned after this earlier teacher. But such theories lack textual support and have died out. Columbia University's Theodor Gaster thinks that the teacher was not even a specific person and that the title was used by a succession of leaders. Despite lack of evidence for a direct link between Jesus and the Dead Sea sect, the scrolls show that many of the concepts contained in the Gospels, as well as the fervent expectation of an imminent kingdom of God, were commonplace in Jewish culture just...
...anti-abortion position by a fundamentalist fringe. Their wellintentioned arguments--couched in terms of Jesus and the Bible--do more harm than good when it comes to persuading Americans why abortion is the unjust policy, which it really is. As the prominent social theorists Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno argued, even the best-intentioned reformer who uses anachronistic arguments--and the fundamentalist language is surely anachronistic and non-persuasive for most Americans--"strengthens the very power of the established order he is trying to break...
Toscanini's viscerally exciting performances, wrought with supreme tension and instrumental clarity, though sometimes sacrificing musical depth, also account for his popularity, according to Horowitz. Here Horowitz invokes the theories of Theodor Adorno, a Marxist of the Frankfurt school. Adorno, Horowitz writes, understood culture of the "bourgeois epoch"--"affirmative" and "official"--as neglecting the contradictions inherent in great art. Although proponents claimed classical would lead to universal enlightenment, "aspects of the concert hall experience were standardized, atomized, `fetishized,'" by alienated members of a "commodity society...
...otherworldly animals pop up in the most amazing places, so it was no surprise that Dr. Seuss, a.k.a. Theodor Geisel, should find his most famous fictional feline in front of the San Diego Museum of Art, about to be hoisted onto the roof. The 22-ft.-tall replica of the Cat in the Hat went on display last week to announce the opening of "Dr. Seuss from Then to Now," a retrospective of his nearly 60-year career that will travel over the next two years to Pittsburgh, New York City, Baltimore and New Orleans. Geisel, 82, whose latest best...
...clarity of The Siege stems from its strong attachment to Western intellectual values. The book is also in the best tradition of readable historical narrative. O'Brien recounts the varieties of 19th century anti- Semitism in Europe and Russia. He follows the emergence of leaders like Theodor Herzl ("I shall be the Parnell of the Jews") and Chaim Weizmann, who successfully lobbied Britain to pass the Balfour Declaration of 1917 to help establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine. The document was an important seal of approval for Zionism, although His Majesty's government had ulterior motives. Among them...