Word: brotherhood
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...former president of a social fraternity I must report that our fraternity was based on the notion of brotherhood and friendship through sports, parties, sometimes schoolwork, and not through hazing activities...
...this threat which marks young Rahman's coming of age. As relatives of the Muftis and prominent businessmen themselves, the future fedayeen leader's family had felt the bludgeon of al-Husayni's fanaticism even before Rahman's birth. Caught in the power struggles between the reactionary Muslim Brotherhood and the followers of the Mufti, Rahman and his contemporaries--all eager to fight for the Palestinian cause--find themselves pawns in the previous generation's game...
...been involved in a bitter competition with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters since 1970 over which union would organize the lettuce pickers...
...task force established by Reform Jewish synagogues in the New York City area is proposing widespread linguistic changes in the liturgy. It suggests, among other things, dropping the masculine (and biblical) words Father or King and supplanting them simply with "God"; banning "brotherhood" and "fellowship" in favor of "community," "unity" or "kinship." Says Liturgist Rabbi Chaim Stern of Chappaqua, N.Y., who is not a member of the task force: "I am now persuaded that it is illegitimate to use masculine language about God." It is a significant conversion. As editor of Reform's 1975 prayer book, Stern labored four...
...gotta keep movin"' sings the opening soloist in Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope, and that's just what this all-black revue does--from songs of bittersweet confrontation and celebration of black awareness to prayers for the brotherhood of man, from mock minuet and kick lines to sinuous rhythm and blue writhings...