Word: abrahamisms
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...members of past and present administrations who, with a little study, would see their public stance on the defense for what it really is: political subterfuge, and a hollow avoidance of substantive discussion. "Because the currents calling criminal responsibility into question are so strong," writes Yale Law School Professor Abraham Goldstein, "those who look to criminal law to shore up weakened social supports see the insanity defense as a call to battle." The same kind of Administration thinking that hoped to tamper with the exclusionary rule has allowed the Justice Department to exploit the burst of media attention and attack...
...blackjack dealer: "She told me my New York Jewish accent would always make me seem dumb. She was very proud of her family, fond of going to the Mayflower Ball." After returning to New York in 1973, they broke up, and Barrows worked diligently for three years in the Abraham & Straus department stores' executive-trainee program...
...known as the Sh 'ma) as Jesus recites it in Mark: "Hear, O Israel: The Sovereign our God, the Sovereign is one." In Acts 3, in the interests of domestic balance, the customary list of Hebrew patriarchs is augmented by the names of their wives: "The God of Abraham [and Sarah], of Isaac [and Rebekah], of Jacob, [Leah and Rachel...
...soul of the world. The evil woman loses every battle of wills. Desperately she conceives a plan that cannot fail to undo her opponent: she will marry him. But in stories like The Wicked City, Singer is no longer content to twinkle. The angry retelling of Genesis changes Abraham's nephew Lot from a shepherd into the radical lawyer of Sodom. In one case, Lot represents a man who has murdered his own parents, throwing the defendant on the mercy of the court because he is now an orphan. When Jehovah condemns the town, Lot flees with his family...
...Unification Church believes the line of towering Judeo-Christian prophets begins with Noah, Abraham, Moses and Jesus, and is revived with Reverend Moon. According to this view, Christ redeemed man's spirit while Moon wants to redeem the whole man; to exalt his material side as well as his spiritual. This is why the Church encourages its members to found businesses and to give generously to the Church--actually just another version of the American Protestant work and tithe ethic...