Word: faithfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plot sprawls across 17 years, most of them so telescoped that to believe the tale spectators must make leaps of faith. Valjean first appears in chains; released after 19 years in prison for stealing a loaf of bread to save his sister's starving child, he remains unrepentant. Given shelter by a bishop, the hardened Valjean robs him, only to be recaptured by police; when the clergyman backs up his false claim that the booty was a gift, Valjean undergoes a moral transformation. He also undergoes a legal one: he destroys his papers, takes a new name and eventually becomes...
Before the dust settles, though, we should make sure that one flawed disciplinary body is not replaced by another. For the new body to ensure justice in the Harvard community, it must enjoy the full faith and confidence of those who live under its jurisdiction. Does the new committee deserve such support...
...hope is what sustains the family," she said. "There may be a lot of disarray in the government now. But President Reagan has reaffirmed his faith in the hostages. I think he is strongly committed to these...
...believe in government action to improve life; the constrained believe in markets and process. The unconstrained think war is irrational and can be prevented by greater understanding; the constrained think it is perfectly rational and can be deterred only by the threat of force. In general, the unconstrained put faith in education, the constrained in experience; the unconstrained in youth, the constrained...
...investigation of how little structure a song can have and still be a song, Big Dipper insert their bursts of oddity within relatively normal frameworks. All the songs on Dipper's debut EP, Boo-Boo, are vaguely recognizable forms of straight rock and roll, country or pop balladry. "Faith Healer," for example is a conventional rock tune made interesting by a contorted and bizarre riff, seemingly some sort of comment on the TV preacher of the title...