Word: aaron
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...Noble Savage." Nyerere has turned over the job of Westernizing the Masai to Aaron Weston Mkwang'ata, the commissioner of the territory in which most of them live. Mkwang'ata has instructed tribesmen to throw away their animal skins and skimpy loincloths and "dress in something better than a dirty sheet or a meager yard of cloth that exhibits your buttocks," has also warned them against allowing tourists to "take your naked pictures." He has backed up his crusade with penalties. In the past few weeks, about 250 Masai caught disobeying the new regulations have been locked...
...Aaron d'Aragon, a 15-year-old boy gang leader, is doomed on arrival at the Golden Gate Institute of Industry & Reform, a prison farm for adolescents. There, status is based on ability to humiliate weaker kids by sexual assault. A buddy warns Aaron: "They beat 'em up first, and then gang bang 'em, man! Make queens of 'em forever." Aaron is duly raped by a giant Negro senior citizen of this very bad boys' town. No queen, though, Aaron gets revenge by putting rat poison in the clam chowder. Unfortunately, he kills his best...
...Dartmouth's five-year-old Congregation of the Arts, which each summer invites three composers to a fortnight of per forming, reviewing and explaining a representative sample of their music. Carlos Chavez, the late Zoltan Kodaly and Witold Lutoslawski are among past composers in residence; Frank Martin and Aaron Copland are Henze's predecessor and successor this year...
Real Cohens. Whether or not the building of a new Temple should wait until the Messiah arrives, Jewish theology presents several obstacles to its construction. For one thing, the Law requires that the Temple be administered by Cohens (priests), who are the descendants of Moses' brother Aaron. Yet so many nonpriestly Jews have assumed the name Cohen that rabbinical experts would face a legal nightmare in trying to trace authentic genealogies. For another, the Torah specifies that Temple ritual include daily animal sacrifices-a concept alien to the humane sensitivities of most modern Jews. An even greater obstacle...
CLOWN ON FIRE, by Aaron Judah. The author's sure comedic touch relies on metamorphosing Holden Caulfield into a Polish Jewish boy named Joe Hosea and setting him amuck in India...