Word: alight
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Seeing the spire of Memorial Church alight, at dusk or in darkness, as I leave Mass. Hall in the evenings—that is very beautiful, especially because the Memorial Hall Tower, also alight, is in the same sight line, and both look even better with the glimmer of University Hall’s now cleaned white stone below...
...American political tradition does not believe in such abstractions. The American idea is that the public interest does not arise from the ether and alight upon the shoulder of some wise Senator pulling his chin. It is defined by the rough clash of voices and forces and, yes, interests. Contrary to McCain, these clashing interests are good. The American idea has never been to suppress them but to pit them against each other and allow them to proliferate. The more they proliferate, the more they check and balance each other. Coal fights natural gas. Napster fights the record industry. Nader...
...made up the faithful bloc of Milosevic's supporters for years, turned out against him. These were the backbone of the nation, the weather-beaten farmers, the downtrodden shopkeepers and, most crucially, the stolid miners in the coal-black core of Serbia who kept the nation's electricity alight. When they spontaneously launched their local protests to drive out Milosevic, the balance of power shifted...
...play golf," Woods says, and if his Tiger Woods Foundation succeeds in making courses and equipment available to more underprivileged kids, the sport will "attract the better natural athletes"--including the bigger and stronger kids, many of them black and Hispanic and Asian. "Just imagine," Woods muses, his eyes alight, "if Michael Jordan, with his size and strength and hand-eye coordination, had started playing golf early...
...guard of FM is just that: a keeper of the magazine, holding the torch that has been kept faithfully alight during the twelve volumes that precede this one. All of this proceeds in fits and starts--we need to take a breath and hope: change is good. Change is good. Change is good...