Word: godly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...optimistic Secretary of State Cyrus Vance late last week: "We have now resolved almost all the substantive issues." While in the U.S. on a fund-raising tour, Israeli Premier Menachem Begin said that "real progress" had been made and that he hoped to sign the treaty "quite soon, with God's help." Even customarily cautious Egyptian diplomats agreed with their Israeli counterparts that "the point of no return" had been reached on the three-week-old peace talks...
...instance, taunted the Saudis for their continued financial backing of Egypt. Unless the Arabs took joint action, he declared, "the Israelis will not stop until they have reached Mecca and seized your oil wealth." To which the Saudi Foreign Minister, Prince Saud al Faisal, replied tartly: "Mecca has a God to protect it. As for the oil, it has men defending it." By week's end the group had voted to raise $9 billion to strengthen Arab defenses against Israel, and sent a four-man delegation to meet Sadat in hopes of persuading him to give up his peace...
...king of the mountain.' " Over $1 million was spent just to rebuild Henning near Los Angeles: during Roots 2, viewers will see the town grow from a dusty rural outpost into an industrialized modern city. Says Margulies: "Finally I had the money to shoot in an honest-to-God cotton field...
...graffito distressed the cathedral's Dean, the Very Rev. Edward Patey, a clergyman known for his social conscience, but he defended the project forthrightly. "It might be called wasted space, wasted heat, by some," he says today, "but there is an instinct that one aspect of worship of God is to be aware of our smallness in proportion to his majesty. The medieval builders felt this. To go to worship God is not just like going out to buy a packet of fish and chips." As for the cost, Dean Patey has no apologies: "Compared with what people spend...
Onstage, Gogol's characters look naturalistic enough, even transparently accessible, but it is the unseen company they keep-God, the devil and Russia-that lends them the strange dimensions of figures in fables. At one point in Marriage, a key character breaks into a paroxysm of laughter about the absurdity of just about everything. Then his face takes on an ashen look of desolation, and he says, "God have mercy on our sinning souls." Gogol uses such juxtapositions to go beyond tragedy or comedy into a realm that might be called cosmic farce...