Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Buber came across a testament of Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer, the 18th century's wonder-working Baal Shem Tov (the good master of the divine name) who founded Hasidism. Buber gave up politics and journalism to spend five years studying Hasidic texts, then wrote the first of his ten books that retell the legends and learning of the Hasidic rabbis. During the early '30s, he and the late Rabbi Leo Baeck were the unquestioned leaders of Germany's Jewish community; Buber organized schools, edited anti-Nazi journals, and in "The Question to the Single One" wrote...
...said that the whole romantic wing of today's abstract painting derives from him. Once he had himself lashed to the mast of a boat for four hours during a severe storm at sea. Critics called the resulting painting "a mass of soapsuds and whitewash." Turner protested: "I wonder what they think the sea is like," and the modern eye can readily see the inner turmoil and thunder. DEVIS. What stands out in the arr represented in the Mellon Collection is the quality that Historian G. M. Trevelyan called "the fullness of life . . . Perhaps...
...field where professional jealousy is a factor of economic life, Geraldine Page is admired even more extravagantly by actors than by audiences, who only know what they see and that they have been moved, and seldom wonder how it was done. Even her fellow pros find it hard to explain. When pressed, one actor fumbled, made several tries, then suggested: "Gerry is never ahead. She is always reacting as if she did not know what the other actor was going to say." It may not be real life, but no illusionist can come closer than that...
Where indeed? With defects so glaring, it would seem a wonder that anyone in Russia reads the papers at all. But Adzhubei was satisfied that he could at least count on his readers. In Russia, the "Soviet people have immense trust in their press and respect...
Ferdinand and Isabella took him ten years, and purely in terms of the physical effort involved, it is a wonder that he ever finished it, or any of his other books. Prescott had been all but blinded in one eye in an accident at school, and by his mid-30s the sight in his other eye had begun to fail. He devised a method of writing on a board lined with wires to guide his hand. But most of the research materials that went into his books had to be read to him by a secretary, and when his sight...