A recreation of a village in Palestine and its characters, each gently and carefully called back from the past to tell their stories in a literary narrative. In 1917, the members of a spy ring who sought to assist the British in driving the Turks from Palestine were betrayed. It was said that four women of the town were seen laughing at the arrests of their neighbors. Each met a strange fate: one died prematurely, the second went mad, the third was an invalid and the fourth lived out her life in disrepute. When Halkin read this story of the village that he lived in, it inspired him to begin a journey into the past. His friends and neighbors each offered a different version of the events, and Halkin discovered that each of them was in some way affected by the legendary fate of the spy ring

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This book obviously does not set out a complete record of the Nixon scandals or of the Nixon career. It doesn't even include all the cartoons about Nixon or relating to him--which probably number more than those Block did on almost any other public figure (good or bad), including such long-in-the-limelight persons as Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin. It does include a large number of the Nixon cartoons, along with dates of some incidents, and comments and recollections about their subject--a political career which in some way has affected all of us.

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Title: Ambassador Morgenthau's StoryAuthor: Henry MorgenthauLanguage: English

A native of Vienna, Henry Koerner immigrated to the United States in 1938, a refugee from Hitler's persecution of the Jews. Upon his return to Vienna as an American soldier in 1946, he learned that his family had been deported and killed. This volume documents the painter's formation through his experience of loss, exploring his magical realism work of the period 1945-57.

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ...Aber das ist ein Irrthum. Durch seinen Kahlkopf, den er zuweilen mit so einer weißen Nebelkappe bedeckt, giebt er sich zwar den Anstrich von Philiströsität; aber wie bei manchen andern großen Deutschen, geschieht es aus purer Ironie. Es ist sogar notorisch, daß der Brocken seine burschikosen, phantastischen Zeiten hat, z. B. die erste Mainacht. Dann wirft er seine Nebelkappe jubelnd in die Lüfte, und wird, eben so gut wie wir Uebrigen, recht echtdeutsch romantisch verrückt. Ich suchte gleich die schöne Dame in ein Gespräch zu vers flechten: denn Naturschönheiten genießt man erst recht, wenn man sich auf der Stelle darüber aussprechen kann. Sie war nicht geistreich, aber aufmerksam sinnig. Wahrhaft vzrnehme Formen. Ich meine nicht die gewöhnliche, steife, negative Vornehmheit, die genau weiß, was unterlassen werden muß; w sondern jene seltnere, freie, positive Vornehmheit, die uns genau sagt, was wir thun dürfen, und die uns, bei aller Unbefangenheit, die höchste gesellige Sicherheit giebt. Ich entwickelte, zu meiner eigenen Verwunderung, viele geographische Kenntnisse, nannte der wißbegierigen Schönen alle Namen der Städte, die iJ vor uns lagen, suchte und zeigte ihr dieselben auf meiner Landkarte, die ich über den Steintisch, der in der Mitte der Thurmplatte steht, mit echter Dozentenmiene ansbreitete. Manche Stadt konnte ich nicht finden, vielleicht weil ich mehr mit den Fingern suchte, als mit den Augen, die sich unterdessen auf dem 20 Gesicht der holden Dame orientirten, und dort schönere Partien fanden, als „Schierke" und „Elend." Dieses Gesicht gehörte zu denen, die nie reizen, selten entzücken, und immer gefall...

Harry Stein gives us the conversations of a group of older men who meet every week for lunch to reflect on their lives and the state of the world. What is a well-lived life? What is honour, and does it have a place in our society? A profound and poignant meditation on the meaning of honour, told through the words of men who lived life according to the forgotten rules of trust and responsibility. From these conversations, Stein shows us men who lived their lives according to values that have since been declared relative or obsolete: honour, responsibility, decency, and an uncynical commitment to being the best men they could be. Stein presents the stories of this remarkable group of men who lived through the difficult time of the mid-20th century and all its wars and social upheavals. We meet Moe Turner, Stein's father-in-law, a mathematician involved in research on the H-bomb who is Stein's connection to the group. We meet Boyd Huff, a survivor of the Nazi prisoner camps, whose youngest son was killed in a gun accident and oldest is a hospitalized schizophrenic. We meet Gene Cooper, an electrical engineer and the emotional centre of the group. These three men, and the rest of the club, have had difficult lives and plenty of trying moments, yet all of them have survived with their sense of right and wrong, of honour and love, fully intact. Stein connects their background, stories and lives, to the valuable views and ideas they share with him now. What the reader comes away with is a renewed sense of purpose, a new confidence in the strength of courage and conviction in your beliefs—even as those of the world change around you.