Word: godly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bravo for your feature on Washington and Dixy [Dec. 12]. You have captured the essence of our life-style and the beauty of our state. Yes we have problems, but God has granted us so much good that these problems seem surmountable...
...fairly easy for a mind trying to grasp the mysteries and complexities of nature to become canonical, fanatical or just nutty. So let's have sympathy for Governor Ray trying to compromise between the God of nature, the almighty dollar and a technocratic society...
...klieg lights, the Egyptian who had hurled his armies across the Suez Canal in 1973 stood at attention next to the old Irgun guerrilla whose name has been a dark legend to Palestinian Arabs for 30 years. An Israeli military band played first the Egyptian national anthem, By God of Old, Who Is My Weapon, and then the Israeli Hatikvah. In a hushed, deeply moving tableau, Sadat walked along the receiving line with Israeli Premier Menachem Begin to greet the old and resolute enemies: former Premiers Yitzhak Rabin and Golda Meir, Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan, Ariel Sharon, "Israel's Patton...
...journalistic relevance. In current fiction that usually means female counterparts of Saul Bellow's Dangling Man. The crucial difference is that today most heroines seem free of the need to huff and puff about the Big Questions: the loss of tradition, unpardonable guilt, the death of God. They certainly never ponder man's fate...
...describes her as a "protestant" and a "nation-alist." Joan protests against the authority of the church in favor of the individual conscience. She subverts the authority of the feudal aristocracy by proclaiming the supremacy of the nation-state. It is the love of democracy, not the love of God, which binds Joan's commoner-soldiers to the peasant-saint. It is the fear of democracy, not the fear of God, which Joan puts into the hearts of the lords temporal and spiritual...