Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...offer the above cited proverb as an explanation of the affair and use this opportunity to express gratitude to the University for its unwarranted and perennial gentility. And while speaking of ancient traditions, the following apothegm of St. Macarios of Egypt (end of 4th century) is perhaps appropriate: "A bad word makes even good men bad, but it good word makes even bad men good." Fr. Mamas Holy Transfiguration Monastery
Those in search of a more varied American menu may want to check out the well known 33 Dunster St. They would do well to avoid the temptation. This haven for the Lacoste set is over priced overrated and pretentious What's more the food is bad Parents seem to like it but a better bet would be two classy inexpensive soup-salad and quiche joints: Grendel's and The Stockpot. both...
...jury decides whether to indict Battisti, and it is not clear if anyone will review Aldrich's role. For the moment, though, one certain casualty of the scandal is the dignity of Cleveland's federal bench. Says one of its judges: "I wish this were all a bad dream and we could wake up and say it's over...
...Cage aux Folles, for which he has written the book and which is scheduled to open on Broadway in August. Suddenly he is in demand. One producer even wants him to be the voice of the MX missile in a film comedy, which is not all that bad an idea. If the MX missile could talk, it might well sound like Fierstein-hoarse, raspy and very direct...
Walker Percy subtitles this witty, philosophical miscellany The Last Self-Help Book. The designation is ironic because Percy doubts that "self can help itself or, with apologies to Socrates, even know itself. The pith of his bad news goes something like this: scientific observation explains the world wonderfully but cannot explain the nature of the self without dispiriting results. The reason is that science reduces the mysterious entity to chemical interactions and sets of behavior. This does little for the craving that myth and religion once satisfied. The result is that with the shortening of these old perspectives, the self...