Word: men
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...knows exactly when, but it was some 2,000 years ago that a ship from Egypt was wrecked on the west coast of India, south of Bombay. Seven men and seven women survived, and an ancient cemetery at the village of Nowgow is traditionally the place where they buried the bodies of the drowned. The 14 survivors were given jobs by a Hindu oil merchant, who put them to work pressing seeds for oil (still a traditional occupation of some Bene Israel villagers). Because they refused to work on the Sabbath, the Hindus called them Shanwar Telis-Saturday...
...children when they were eight days old, stayed indoors on Yom Kippur, and refused to eat fish without fins and scales, he decided they must be Jews. Rahabi set about rescuing their religion; he gave them prayers and rituals, and taught Hebrew to three of their most promising young men. Ever since, the community has observed the Sephardic rites they learned from...
...men are life-size," Whistler once said-and fewer still combine the gall, gallantry and genius with which Whistler fashioned a larger-than-life legend. Poet and Critic Horace (Amy Lowell) Gregory skirts the legend, feeling that many of the stories are in their anecdotage. He sacrifices color for perspective, but even a toned-down Whistler is no still life...
Once the Allies secured the Normandy landings, the Americans again got in the way. Why were they always complaining about cautious, tidy Montgomery when he was really taking the brunt of the battle? (The fact is that many military men, including Germans, feel that Monty could have taken his major objective, Caen, in the first days if he had chosen to move instead of sitting.) After the breakout, Brookie was again peeved. Why didn't Ike let Monty take the bulk of the armies and finish off the Germans in the Ruhr? Instead, Ike insisted on forming up along...
...Biographer St. Johns reports, Builder Eaton still has one foot in the graveyard. He takes a paternal interest in some 900 well-paid employees and issues periodic denunciations of other cemeteries, which, as a Forest Lawn Art Guide once put it, "cry out men's utter hopelessness in the face of death." To this statement Novelist Waugh somewhat tartly replied that "by far the commonest feature of other graveyards is still the Cross, a symbol in which previous generations have found more Life and Hope than in the most elaborately watered evergreen shrub...