Word: blessing
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Thank goodness for the Colorado pastor who said he is troubled by the song so often sung today, God Bless America. He believes we should say, "God bless America as well as the other nations." Do we truly think God should bless only us? How arrogant! I wish we would all fly flags showing arms linked around the world. God would approve of that without any doubt. ROBERTA POWELL Worthington, Ohio...
...keep its guests busy: laying broad-gauge track on the railway down the valley; driving a highway across the Sierras...In San Francisco's Little Tokyo, store fronts were plastered with huge signs, proclaiming, "Evacuation Sale." In one window, under the sign, hung a red-white-&-blue poster: God bless America, the land we love. --TIME, April...
...other pop songwriter had a No. 1 hit 83 years after it was written? God Bless America, today sung everywhere by cowboys and members of Congress, is prime Berlin: emotionally direct, sinfully singable. The all-American immigrant, who died in 1989 at 101, wrote a million of 'em--well, 1,200, all collected in this handsome volume, indispensable for anyone who can't stop humming White Christmas, Puttin' on the Ritz, Always or the ineffable Cheek to Cheek. "Heaven, I'm in heaven...
...hallowed halls of museums we bless the lucky few whose is art is worthy of eternal praise. Elevated above the ordinary, this art defies the insidiousness of time and endows the great artist with a kind of immortality. We stand back and admire the finished product as a static entity. But what do we do if the masterpiece is a 30-year old decomposing lump of chocolate in the shape of lion? What if the work of art changes with time and will eventually disintergrate entirely? And how can food, such an ordinary part of life, be transformed into something...
...free. Only very recently did this belief go out of vogue, when our parents’ generation inherited a righteous superpower and rejected its moral grounding like the spoiled sons of a self-made millionaire. Yet here we are in this new world where “God Bless America” is no cliché and the kites of Kabul tell us that what we have can bless others...