Word: ezekiel
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...more specifically, Dr. Ezekiel J. Emanuel,assistant professor of medicine and of socialmedicine at Harvard Medical School, says hedoubted a simplified form for patients wouldimprove quality...
...obscure offshoot, the Branch Davidians, which was a mutation of an earlier Adventist splinter group. The Davidians trace their roots to Victor Houteff, a Bulgarian immigrant who was expelled from a Los Angeles Adventist church in 1929. Houteff had become obsessed with passages in the Book of Ezekiel in which an angel of God divides the faithful from the sinful before Jerusalem's fall to the Babylonians. Believing that passage to be a warning to Adventists, Houteff established a splinter congregation in 1935 on the outskirts of Waco, in the deeply religious prairie land of Texas...
...World War II, his life fell apart. First, to his unassuageable grief, Krake died of cancer. Then he began to show the symptoms of tertiary syphilis. The last works that hold some spark of visual life are Johnson's religious subjects, such as the beautiful tempera drawing Ezekiel Saw the Wheel (circa 1942-43). After the war he began a series of paintings of Fighters for Freedom: political figures (Chiang Kai-shek, Churchill, Nehru and others) and icons of black history, such as Nat Turner hanged on a tree. They are mostly feeble, lacking the iconic power and brilliantly felt...
What causes such bizarre behavior remains mysterious. For centuries schizophrenics were believed to be possessed by devils or even angels. St. Teresa of Avila was probably a schizophrenic, and so perhaps was the prophet Ezekiel, who, in addition to his many apocalyptic visions, said he heard a divine voice command him to sleep on his right side for 390 nights and then switch to his left for 40. Some archaeologists believe that holes drilled in prehistoric skulls represent efforts to release the demons of madness. During the Middle Ages, those who heard voices were frequently burned at the stake...
...toys help us avoid loneliness. A double can be pretty depressing if one roommate is away and the Lego phone isn't ringing. But we're never deserted by our three plastic frogs (Isaiah, Ezekiel and Bob) and our orange iguana, John Black...