Word: blessing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some bishops were troubled by the prospect of substitute services. William McManus, a retired Indiana bishop, warned that the strong tradition of Sunday Mass could be undermined "if we bless this monster." Bishop Raymond Lucker of New Ulm, Minn., urged a study of the priest shortage that would face such issues as "Why can't we ordain people other than celibate males?" For the Vatican, however, that is a question not open to discussion...
Berlin's musical signature was the sheer inevitability of his songs, the way they seemed to have always been around, like folk songs. Surely White Christmas is an authentic carol, not a number composed for the 1942 movie Holiday Inn. God Bless America must have been sung first by Washington's troops at Valley Forge, not by Kate Smith in 1938. And didn't Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning emerge from a pioneer encampment and not from a 1918 army musical called Yip, Yip, Yaphank...
...When we go down a road and stop at a light, white people and black people look at us all mad like," says Robert. "I wave at them. When the light changes, I wave them on and say, 'God bless...
...ground, the rhetoric of peace counts for nothing. Few Israelis believe that the vast distance traveled by Yasser Arafat toward a credible negotiating position is anything but a ruse. The P.L.O.'s apparent readiness to bless a peace initiative whose salient points are at best ambiguous is dismissed as derisively as its earlier recognition of Israel's right to exist. The majority of Israeli Jews scorn as naive the possibility that the Palestinians may finally have decided to "settle" for something short of everything. How could they?, asks Yitzhak Shamir; the central problem has never changed: "We think the land...
WHILE these stories certainly reveal a great deal about America and the people who live here, they do start to sound a little bit corny after a while. (If you read More Like Us in a very still room, you can hear "God Bless America" playing softly in the background.) Still, the American Dream is a hard thing to write about without doing too much flag-waving, and Fallows manages to survive with some degree of objective credibility when he writes about these people who have made the American Dream come true for them...