Word: amenability
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...AMEN, SOMEBODY...
...oneself forward, and for a moment or so keep everything still, frozen, in the hollow of one's hand, and then to set them all singing and soaring in one final sweep, with the cymbals clashing at every flicker of one's eyelid, to sound the grand Amen...
Afterward the orchestra musicians presented him with an ornate scroll with all their signatures as a gesture of respect and affection. "Heavenly thanks for the good musical collaboration," it reads. "So nice," said the kid from Cincinnati who had grown up to sound the grand Amen. "That's marvelous. Fantastic. Wonderful...
...Rather has had the temerity to say so. In the Wall Street Journal he noted that local stations have increased their news programming by 300%. "The real problem," Rather wrote, "is not too much news. It's too much chatter masquerading as news." Amen to that. Rather concluded, "But most Americans still rely on the network evening newscast for their information." Wrong perception...
...Creator and Supreme Judge of the world. May your justice, your truth and your peace abound this day in the hearts of our countrymen, in the counsels of our government, in the sanctity of our homes and in the classrooms of our schools. In the name of our Lord, amen...