Word: hasting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only confuses and perhaps hurts the case one might make to modify Princeton's honor system. At best, Clayton is guilty of an ill-advised and suspicious move. At worst, of course, he's just guilty. But if Princeton insists on an eleventh commandment--"thou shall state that thou hast not cheated"--then it owes its students the opportunity to deal with people more experienced in university matters and less likely to be swayed by faculty pressures than an average sophomore, who--unknown to all--just may have cheated on an exam himself...
...After Jacob, grandson of Abraham, had wrestled all night with the angel at the brook Jabbok, the angel dubbed him Israel ("Prince of God"), "for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed...
Good Friday is more somber. The zigzagging Via Dolorosa, so named only in the 16th century, is packed with pilgrims following in Christ's footsteps to Calvary. "We adore thee, O Christ ... Thou hast redeemed the world," the Franciscan monks chant in Lathi as they lead their flocks through the Arab market, through the 14 stations of the Cross. Past the small Polish chapel that marks the spot where Jesus staggered and fell under the burden of his Cross, past the Armenian church that commemorates his encounter with his mother, past the Greek chapel that honors St. Veronica...
...hast thou but one bare hour to live...
...Daddy state. They have knocked a hole in the wall, climbed outside their totalistic system and marched angrily around it demanding things. That is very embarrassing. It is also, communistically speaking, impossible. It is a little like the old Second City comedy routine in which Ahab thunderously demands, "Hast seen the white whale?" and the other ship's captain calls back, "Yeah. We killed him yesterday." What happens now to the metaphysical plot, to the primordial story? Communism, after all, loses ideological face if the workers, the stars of Marx's historical drama, step so radically...