Word: isaac
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...consensus of the Covenant theologians is that God does reveal himself to man, and that he has, in one way or another, established some kind of special covenant with the Jews. For the traditionalist, that may mean the literal, biblical Covenant first made by God with the patriarchs?Abraham, Isaac and Jacob?and later confirmed with the Hebrew people as a whole at Sinai. For others it may mean a more existential relationship, perhaps with a less personal...
...Have You Seen Her Chi-Lites 6. Want Ads Honey Cone 7. Brown Sugar-Bitch Rolling Stones 8. Nathan Jones Supremes 9. What's Going On Marvin Gaye 10. Where Did Our Love Go? Donnie Elbert 11. Tired of Being Alone Al Green 12. Never Can Say Goodbye Isaac Hayes-Jackson 5 13. American Pie Don McLean 14. Maggie Redbone 15. Spanish Harlem Aretha Franklin 16. Family Affair Sly and the Family Stone 17. Remember Me Diana Ross 18. Cool Aid Paul Humphrey 19. Long Promised Road Beach Boys 20. Don't Change on Me Ray Charles 21. We Were...
...myths are, in effect, picture stories that tell the philosophies of two totally divergent cultures. The Greek stresses man's heroic striving for human values and civilization; the Hebrew emphasizes, rather, man's humble spiritual surrender to God's will. Abraham's willingness to sacrifice Isaac is the supreme symbol of this attitude...
...third-generation inheritors of a faith tend to reduce a passion into a habit. Short on spirit, long on technicality, they are the lettermen. Abruptly jumping 100 years, switching the scene to Pennsylvania, and abandoning historical characters, De Hartog introduces as his letterman a New World Quaker businessman named Isaac Woodhouse. This Early American success figure may have been sober, industrious and honest even with Indians. But, in De Hartog's words, he also showed a positive "genius for compromise." Quaker slaveowners, for instance, intimidated slaves by showing whips without ever actually using them-a fine distinction suggesting that...
...future, I welcome Professors Isaac's and Vigier back into more active participation in the Department. They must make the first move when they feel it's appropriate, though. Frankly, it's up to them," Mann said...