Word: cherishing
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...trailing in the polls, Barbara, who was once so shy she cried over having to speak to the Houston Garden Club, delivered the speech of her life. She admonished the audience to find something bigger than themselves to believe in, to share laughter, find joy in life and cherish, above all, human connections. The loudest cheer came when she delivered the predictable but nonetheless effective kicker: "Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President's spouse. I wish him well...
...cannot help but think that if Bok were truly committed to the values he publicly espoused--diversity and openness--he could done more to force real change at the University. The problem, it seems, was one of priorities. Bok professed to be committed to the values we cherish. But he was more committed to many others. To Bok, change was bad if it he saw it as challenging tradition or putting ethical concerns before financial viability--and that's usually...
Stylized and static, the five-hour Passion play is hardly a masterpiece, yet many Christians cherish it as a vivid, visible symbol of their faith. Further, it is a cultural artifact representative of its time and thus has historical validity. Finally, it is inappropriate to revise a work of art according to contemporary attitudes. Jews are depicted hardly less stereotypically in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice or Richard Strauss's opera Salome. It is hard to see how any version can ever satisfy all. One possible solution, briefly bruited in 1977, is to revert to Ferdinand Rosner...
...there was no television coverage in Princeton Sunday. Only those who were there will forever cherish the memory of Walser wheeling and firing a quick wrist shot past Maryland goalie Jessica Wilk for the winning score. It was over in a second, and the celebrating had begun...
...various ways deceptive. The West Germans have made some amends, but they have forgotten too much; the Austrians deny they were Hitler's willing accomplices; the Dutch idolize Anne Frank but overlook the fact that she was betrayed by one of the many Dutch collaborators; the French cherish the myth of the heroic Resistance but began mistreating Jews well before the Nazis asked them to do so; the Soviets steadfastly denigrate the Jewishness of most Holocaust victims; and all too many Americans are turning memories of the Holocaust into a vulgar fund-raising carnival...