Word: cherished
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feel that we must decide between eating plants or eating animals [Nov. 5], then we should avoid eating plants and indeed cherish them with loving care. Plants not only produce all the food for both themselves and animals but also keep the oxygen supply of the earth constant against our ever increasing destruction of it. On moral grounds as well as biological, if we feel we must choose, it is clear that we should insist on eating only animal products...
...veterans whose existence so harshly intrudes on our vague historical reflections about Veterans Day. Their presence somehow goes against the grain of America's feelings about her other wars. Their reality explodes the myth we once held of Right vs. Wrong, Good vs. Bad, Us vs. Them. All peoples cherish this myth, the notion that in the scales of universal justice and morality their struggle, their existence, their purpose is justified and vindicated. All peoples need to have this feeling, otherwise the plodding course of daily life is petty and meaningless...
...life than that which occurs between the Crimson goalposts. And no Princetonian has ever narrowed his view and his allegiance to the football field. Nor are their ties limited to the scope of the class notes in the Princeton Alumni Weekly. For dressed in tweeds and argyles, the alumni cherish their university...
Throughout a remarkable lifetime as an influential member of the royal family, as an acclaimed combat hero and strategic planner in World War II, Lord Mountbatten's considerable qualities indeed seemed larger than life. He appeared to embody, if anyone could, the very model of what Englishmen cherish as their national character. As French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing eulogized after the assassination last week: "He personified British courage, dignity and elegance...
...Telemann partitas. With no investment in a ticket, they find it easiest to review a performance with their feet: they keep on walking. Hence a by-God spontaneous response is the street musicians' sweetest reward. A Seattle group called Brandywine (violin, hammer dulcimer, guitar, bass) will always cherish the moment during the Fat Tuesday celebration when its galloping rendition of the William Tell Overture so inflamed a woman bystander that she bounded up onto a horse behind a mounted policeman. Hi-ho, Rossini...