Word: heavenward
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...skies that have lowered all afternoon are threatening to pour. One young farmer near me points toward the doggers and says, "They may not get to finish this." His partner looks heavenward, grinning in the drizzle, and says, "I need a good rain a lot more'n I need to watch a dance...
...promiscuous children. They have no memories, and she gradually sinks into their condition. Then she drowns. "Circle dancing is magic," Kundera writes, pointing out the allure of the group to isolated souls. An image recurs several times in these stories: people join hands, laughing and singing, and ascend slowly heavenward. The author portrays all movements, crusades, organized religions and political parties as extended circle dances. "I too once danced in a ring," Kundera writes, describing how he joined the Communist Party in 1948. His expulsion shortly there after taught him something: "Leave a row and you can always go back...
...accurately reflects the drift and disarray that have characterized the Administration's economic policy over the past three years. As Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker and Treasury Secretary G. William Miller fiddle with the depressing statistics, Carter seems able to do little more than cast his eyes heavenward. Meanwhile, a frantic search for another new anti-inflation program, which could be announced as early as this week, is under...
...democracy's hedge on majority rule and executive highhandedness. "There is no character on earth more elevated and pure than that of a learned and upright judge. He exerts an influence like the dews of heaven falling without observation," said Daniel Webster, no doubt casting his eyes heavenward. Definitions of a good judge read like recommendations for sainthood: compassionate yet firm, at once patient and decisive, all wise and upstanding...
...good to know that even 20th century man, with all his technology, cannot feel complacent about his world. He can still gaze heavenward and feel the same sense of awe and wonder experienced by earliest man, in all his ignorance...