Word: braves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some students just decided to stay inside all day rather than brave the elements. Tom Girius '80 said, "It makes it easier to study inside with all this crap outside...
...Rabin's chief rival in the upcoming elections: "Vision is worth more than economic study, and the dreamer gets better results than the best professor of economics." One such economist, Tel Aviv University President Haim Ben-Shahar, feels that only a decisive leadership, the kind that would be brave enough to stand up to political pressure groups and cut defense spending, can assure the growth that Israel needs desperately. And when might economic redemption arrive? Israelis like to invoke a rabbinic adage popular since the second century A.D.: "From the fall of the Second Temple, prophecy was taken from...
...personal claims of authority. The result was the sentence to the cross. Küng is perplexed by the Gospel accounts of the resurrection, but, he says, the apostles' belief that Jesus rose from the grave has transfigured subsequent civilizations. "It means a brave life, undertaken by innumerable people, without fear even in the face of fatal risks: through struggle, suffering, death, in firm trust and hope in the goal of true freedom, love, humanity, eternal life...
...booboisie. As it happened, he arrived on the scene when progressives and liberals had seized the reins of established opinion−and when undreamed-of zaniness was abroad in the land. Stuffiness, traditions of all stripes were panting on the ropes; the mood was full throttle into a brave new world...
Sally brings with her one possession, one consolation, one lifeline to the Brave New World she rather wishes she had been born into-her television set. James is a puritan: a beekeeper, a man who splits elm at 20° below zero, a myth maker whose hero is Ethan Allen, not the Fonz. James hates Snoopy, Coca-Cola, California, astronauts (they are there to "undo him") and, above all, television. One night James takes out his 12-gauge shotgun and blasts away at Sally's picture tube as if it were the devil's eye; when she objects...