Word: jerusalem
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Author Jacobs brings to this study of "the creation and recreation of language" a proficiency in more than a dozen tongues. Brooklyn-born, onetime chief interpreter for the military government in Berlin, and now librarian of the Linguistics Department at the University of Jerusalem, he ranges through history, religion, love, and 37 different languages in covering everything from oxymoron (word paradoxes) to lallation (the pronunciation of l for r that is common among Chinese who speak foreign languages). A sampling of some of Author Jacobs' observations...
...contestants in Jerusalem made up an intriguingly mixed company. They included chipper Myrtle Davis, 49, Southern Baptist schoolteacher from Buford, Ga., who won the Bible quiz on the $64,000 Challenge; tiny Irene Santos, 39, a Seventh-day Adventist schoolteacher from Brazil; tall Roman Catholic Paul Guillamier, 19, of Malta, who brought his parish priest with him; matronly Protestant Convert Sara Rabinowitz of Mexico. These and the other contestants (representing Argentina, Colombia, Finland, France, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, South Africa, Sweden and Uruguay) were on hand for the big international Bible quiz, sponsored by an Israeli group to commemorate...
...most dramatic contestant of all was Israel's own entry: Amos Hacham, 30, a partly paralyzed, barely articulate clerk in Jerusalem's Institute for the Blind, and the orphan son of a Bible scholar; a childhood accident had left Hacham with a dragging leg, a shriveled arm and a sagging mouth. All Israel was rooting for Amos as contest time drew near. Every seat in Jerusalem's Hebrew University amphitheatre (capacity: 2,340) was sold well in advance, 300 policemen handled the crowds, and all over the country radio sets were tuned in. With a blare...
...first of August the Israeli ambassador in Moscow transmitted to Jerusalem a threatening note he had been handed by the Soviet government. The next day Washington learned that Israel was about to ban the overflights of U.S. and British planes across Israeli territory, thereby cutting off the vital airlift of oil and supplies, one of the few trickles of aid that is reaching beleaguered Jordan...
These origins are enacted in 13 major scenes by 325 volunteer actors. Scene I shows Jesus telling of his "other sheep," the Mormons. In 600 B.C., they believe, a prophet called Lehi was told by God to leave Jerusalem. He took his family to the American continent. Here the house of Lehi split into two warring nations: the good, God-fearing Nephites, begetters of white children, and the bad, idolatrous Lamanites, whose children God punished with a red skin-hence the American Indians...