Word: blesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...general, he wishes that you see the world generously, that you take note of and rail against all the Lebanons of violence, the Africas of want, but that you also rear back and bless the whole. This is not as hard to do as it may seem. Concentrate on details, and embrace what you fear. The trick is to love the world as it is, the way a father loves a daughter, helpless and attached as he watches her stretch, bloom, rise past his tutelage to her independent, miraculous ascendancy. But you must never let go entirely, as he will...
...stock response "If you don't like it, you don't have to listen" is a phony argument. No one has the right to foul the airways any more than he has a right to foul the streets. God bless those in the FCC who have the courage to try to enforce a level of decency...
Throughout the performance Costello played on the audience's fear that he might make an early exit. Three times Costello shouted into the microphone, "Good night, and God bless," and then left the stage. Three times the English star was called back by chants of "Elvis" and standing ovations from the audience. He would play morethan an hour of encores...
...took his electric guitar in hand...the crowdstood on its feet...people were dancing in theaisles...Costello wished "God Bless". The audiencewas left standing
...UCLA, posters announced a rally for "the white students who have stood by while minority students have their hands held . . . Whites are prepared to fight to preserve their rights! God bless America!" At about the same time, there was, in fact, a fight -- when a fraternity tried to bar a black from an open party...