Word: zion
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...absence of historical references, an active plot and sharp conflict, the novel is vulnerable to interpretation. Is Bartfuss a wandering Jew in, of all places, Zion? Is his folkloric deathlessness the author's way of saying that, even with their own nation, Jews are eternally restless and unsettled? Or is Bartfuss just suffering from post-Holocaust syndrome: a feeling of withdrawal and loneliness, and an inclination toward "morbid precision, excess awareness, complicated pain...
...exploded into action. Troubled by a rash of malpractice cases that, he says, "seem to have been related to fatigue and lack of supervision," Health Commissioner David Axelrod appointed a blue- ribbon committee of New York doctors to investigate. Axelrod had been particularly upset by the case of Libby Zion, an 18-year-old Manhattanite who died while undergoing treatment for a high fever at New York Hospital in 1984; a grand jury attributed her death to neglectful treatment by tired and undersupervised young residents...
...peripatetic candidate sat in an airliner headed for Baton Rouge, La. He wore a red-striped shirt with white collar, and kept popping tiny Tootsie Rolls into his mouth. Jackson was due to deliver a Sunday sermon at the local Mount Zion First Baptist Church. In 20 years, he recalled proudly, he had not once failed to fill a church to overflowing. Jackson believes his 1984 campaign lifted blacks and other minorities toward more power. "There are more blacks trying for office today, sheriffs, legislators, tax assessors," he pointed...
Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold of Harvard Hillel said hethought von Weiszacker was an excellent choice asCommencement speaker. He also attacked those whowere critical of the West German president. "It isparticularly disturbing because people have becomeguilt peddlers," Gold said...
...hospital, which at first vehemently denied the charges, finally owned up and agreed to pay New York State $13,000 in fines, review the credentials of its entire medical staff and report to the state on any other deaths occurring within 24 hours of admission. A malpractice suit by Zion's parents is still pending. But in the Warhol case, the hospital pleads innocent. "We have done many terrible things in the past," says Dr. David Thompson, the institution's director. "This is not one of them...