Word: block
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...wish to comment on your article concerning "Writer's Block" [Oct. 31]. It seems...
...climax of the show, however, is not gold but vellum. If one were to trace to its source the ancient Irish reverence for language-for the Word as the incarnation of truth, as the fundamental building block of culture and religion-it would surely lie in the great illuminated codices of the 6th to 8th centuries, made and preserved in such monastic communities as Burrow, Kells and Lindisfarne. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word...
...Nations last week to a mandatory embargo on all military sales to the Vorster regime does not substantially alter America's official posture, which for over a decade has been voluntary refusal to deal arms to South Africa. The U.S. decision, meanwhile, to use its Security Council veto to block proposals for equivalent embargoes on trade and investment suggests that the Carter administration still holds out hope for bringing an end to the white government's apartheid policies from within. Yet there would now seem to be more than enough evidence that any such faith is misplaced...
While the strikers will not attempt to physically block the entrances to the stadium area, Sirabella said they will hand out informational leaflets and request that spectators not cross the picket lines...
...block to Orthodox growth remains ethnic rivalries, especially between the Russians and the larger, New York-based Greek Orthodox Archdiocese. It does not recognize the self-government granted to the Orthodox Church in America in 1970 by the Orthodox patriarch...