Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Singh considers himself to be lucky in that it is easy for him to do both at once. "Since the Indian foreign policy is based on friendship with all the countries, there has been little conflict," says the 46-year...
Despite that ideal, the Pope's audience was aware that Assisi symbolically went well beyond the ceremonial friendship accorded other faiths by any previous Pontiff. The assemblage included not only monotheists but believers in creeds once labeled "heathen" and "pagan" by a church that for centuries had preached unambiguously that there was no salvation outside its walls. The astonishing variety of the invited group also raised suspicions among some Christians that Assisi represented a heretical step toward syncretism, the amalgamation of various conflicting religions. For this reason, U.S. Fundamentalist Gadfly Carl McIntire branded the meeting the "greatest single abomination...
...loyal, the one who knows that the best of himself will never be expressed." Truck drivers would not talk so gracefully or inhabit a world in which verbal violence is commonplace and bursts of physical violence so shocking. But in its evocation of the judgmental and forgiving ways of friendship -- of how a long acquaintance enables people to divine and condone each other's darkest secrets -- The Common Pursuit does indeed portray what is common in all humanity...
...Clauss, 61, a former German infantryman who was seeing the tiny north-woods town of Stark, N.H., for the first time since 1946. Clauss, now a prosperous businessman in north Germany, shook his head, surprised by the brass band, the drill team and bagpiper, the signs announcing GERMAN-AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP DAY. On the other hand, why had Clauss, four other former prisoners and an assortment of wives, friends and children come all the way to Stark...
...townspeople who remembered those days tried to say exactly why this reunion meant so much to them. Using an unfamiliar language, as some tried to do, was not really the problem. It was that the situation was unusual, and the ordinary formulas of memory and friendship did not quite...