Word: zion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last month Buber phoned Ben-Gurion and asked permission to see him. No, the old (75) Premier told the ancient (84) philosopher, "you are older than I. I will come to see you.'' For two hours in Buber's house on Love of Zion Street, Ben-Gurion listened while Buber pleaded with him to commute the Eichmann death sentence. Society is merely a group of persons, argued Buber, and when it kills one man, it is killing part of itself. "Who gave society the right to kill itself?" he asked. "Society does not have such plenipotentiary rights...
...death. The new scroll, partly damaged by water, contains 39 hymns found in the Biblical Psalter and three noncanonical psalms that scholars had previously seen in Greek, Syriac or Aramaic, but not in Hebrew. Two others are entirely new; the one that Sanders has translated is "an apostrophe to Zion." Sample lines, from his English version: Hope for thee does not perish, O Zion, nor is hope for thee forgotten...
...about are thine enemies cut off, O Zion, and all who hate thee are scattered...
...Frontier is still troubled by old frontiers and old hates. While Wasfi Tal's new government started work, a harmless British eccentric, 56-year-old Ann Lasbury, on a visit to the Holy Land, tried to plant a "Repent" banner on the top of Mount Zion. which straddles the Israel-Jordan border. Fearing a dawn Israeli attack, a Jordanian sentry shot her through the head...
...Tubman Jr., 28, Harvard-bred son of Liberia's President; and Wokie Rosalind Tolbert, 23, pretty, English-educated daughter of Liberian Vice President William Tolbert; at Bensonville, Liberia, in a ceremony performed by (among other clergymen) the father of the bride, who doubles as pastor of the local Zion Praise Baptist Church...