Word: exception
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hasan Matwar, 23, is angry about Camp David because it seems to him to ignore the predicament of the West Bank and Gaza. "Everybody in the Middle East has a father," he laments," except the Palestinians...
Nelson will not "sing, streak, or ask for spare change" today, and will achieve nothing and accomplish nothing except for making this point-"that it is possible, amidst all this activity, to stop," Nelson said yesterday...
...Except for this weekend, which is a break from the routine. "I like doing exhibitions," she says. "They're more fun. I like skating to people rather than for judges...
Western religion has always had trouble justifying its beliefs, resorting in the last analysis to exhortations to "Take it on faith." Fine, if as a result of faith people could experience their own innermost being and achieve religious ecstasy. But except for a few mystics and saints who starve themselves (and possibly affect their perceptual systems through vitamin deficiency) and thereby find God, the mass of westerners live spiritually devoid but hopeful. Religion has ceased to give them the real psychological experiences they seek...
...witnessing some great dialectical resolution of West and East; we may simply be watching the aftermath of a million LSD trips and the casting-about of a hundred million turned-off, disillusioned people; but clearly Something Big is happening, and by refusing to take it seriously except when it leads to such macabre events as the Guyana massacre we are quite possibly missing the boat on the most crucial historical event of our lifetime. Wake up America, your children are chanting in the living room, and it isn't Rock of Ages...