Word: doneness
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...that general attitude still prevalent among literary writers? It both is and isn't. There are a great many people who don't make those distinctions at all, who distinguish only between work that is well done, and work that is not, between work that is nice to read and work that is a chore. Those are the sorts of judgments one should be making. Does it work, is it good, do I like reading...
...Observes Yancey: "He's basically saying, 'Get me out of this!' " Yet he quickly moves into a stage of calm. "By the end of the night, he's the calmest person there. He's told God, 'If this cannot pass away except I drink it, thy will be done.' " The final stage of the prayer, Yancey maintains, is uttered by Jesus from the cross when he beseeches, "Father forgive them. They know not what they do." Yancey does not expect that everyone caught in the current economic vice will achieve quite that level of selflessness, but he says, "Once...
...There was remarkable agreement among all the economists here about what needed to be done," said Nobel economics laureate Stiglitz, who served as chairman of Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers. Any package must be "a comprehensive recovery program, not just based on trickle-down economics, not just giving money to the financial markets, but at least some of the money going directly to households, to meet infrastructure needs, to meet the variety of challenges facing our society today," he said...
...have a tendency to look at things from a little bit of a different angle. And I'm not saying that's necessarily the best or the worst thing, but I'm saying that I can sometimes look at things that have been sitting there for awhile and done a certain way and say, "Maybe we ought to take this in a different direction...
...vote for activist courts that will continue to smother the open and democratic debate we need on this issue, at both the state and federal level. A vote for Barack Obama would give the ultimate power over the issue of life to a politician who has never once done anything to protect the unborn...