Word: heartens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During their 1948 War for Independence, Israeli Jews adopted a phrase to hearten one another no matter how gloomy a situation appeared. "Yihye tov," they would say in Hebrew, meaning "It will be good." The words gradually became a talisman against any troubles, and they were invoked frequently during the Six-Day War -whose third anniversary comes this week. Now, however, the phrase has been amended. "Yihye beseder" or roughly, "It will be O.K." The difference seems slight, but it is not. Confidence has given way to a nagging note of uncertainty. Things may be O.K., but they will...
Likewise, the news that the BSO has removed itself from the clutches of RCA Victor and signed a recording contract with the prestigious Deustsche Gramophon Gesellschaft must hearten owners of high priced music systems who appreciate the better quality of DGG recordings. The extent of the changes Steinberg is making is not fully known, however, since he, most tactfully, is not publicly announcing them. Rather, the word has leaked out from the people involved of the vast changes going on in the makeup of the organization...
...However, arguments for and against canonization cross religious lines. The Archbishop was taken to task by some of the Anglican clergy for interfering in Catholic affairs. Said the Dean of Prescot at Lancashire: "The recollection and commemoration of men and women who died for genuine religious convictions will hearten not only Catholics but many others." Oxford's A. L. Rowse, a leading Elizabethan scholar and a "nonsectarian rationalist." put forward historical arguments against canonization. "The fact is," he said, "that by its bull of 1570, the papacy declared war on Elizabeth I, not only by excommunicating her but deposing...