Word: jerusalems
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...hands of the Russians. Results so far are meager, but if Franco's missionaries win Moslem converts, the troubled West may be grateful to Madrid. Star of the traveling troupe: Franco's only daughter, pretty, strong-willed Marquesa Carmencita de Villaverde, who received medals, teetered over Jerusalem's cobblestones in high-heeled shoes, and inaugurated the first direct Beirut-Madrid phone linkup by chatting for 20 minutes with...
...they cannot agree on what his religion was. In 1761, when he was only four, Blake startled his parents with the announcement that he had seen the Godhead at his window. In 1827, when he was near death, he flabbergasted his friends with a 100-page philosophical poem called Jerusalem, which he not only illustrated but engraved and printed himself. His contemporaries called it "perfectly...
Blake tried and failed to sell the only copy of the poem which he published in color. Last week the William Blake Trust put 500 facsimile color reproductions of Jerusalem on sale, at $95 a copy. Buyers would find the text hot & heavy going, the illustrations magnificent...
...simplest interpretation of the illustrations reproduced on the next two pages hints at the poem's obscurity. On the opposite page, naked Jerusalem, symbolizing a sort of spiritual Utopia, chats with veiled Vala, who symbolizes earthbound womanhood. The children point the way upward to glory. At the top of the next page, Jerusalem tries to explain to a flaming workman that the French Revolution was not a happy one. Below stands the central figure of Time, flanked by Man with the sun on his shoulder, and Woman spinning a blood-red thread of mortal life...
...mountain that John Monroe put in its place was once an orderly peak in Wadi Shaib. Last month, local police patrolling the road to Jerusalem reported that it was walking away. Government officials at Amman at first viewed the report-and the cops-with suspicion. Then they went to have a look. Sure enough, there was a 40,000-square-meter chunk of mountain moving majestically down the valley in a slow-motion landslide. By nature's whimsy, fig trees that had been on one side of the road were now on the other, and bean fields had moved...