Word: empting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Isaac Bashevis Singer, 66, has now lived in the U.S. longer than he did in Poland. At both terminals he has borne witness to the Jewish catastrophes that dwarf the past and pre-empt the future: pogroms, the Holocaust, assimilation and its concomitant, the dying of the Yiddish language in which he writes. And yet within this spare grandpaterfamilias still resides the spirit of a young Hasid, whose nights were animated by ghosts leaping about the Sabbath candles, inanimate objects given life by the Evil One and the immanent...
...primarily to organize committees to work on the environmental teach-in April 22 and to plan other ecology projects," said Rick Mayer, a third-year student at the Graduate School of Design and president of the coalition. "We tried to stress at the meeting that ecology should not pre-empt other issues, that ecology is related to other issues like poverty and housing," he added...