Word: isaiah
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They are both recruited to attend St. Joseph's, a private high school an hour and a half away in the suburbs, reputed for its academics and even more for its basketball program. A faded cardboard cutout of Detroit Pistons legend Isaiah Thomas, who graduated from the school, decays in the trophy display case...
...small Cape Cod town of Cotuit (pop. 3000), a man with "lots of curly black hair" entered the Isaiah Thomas Books and Prints store on the morning of June 23. From behind the counter, the store's owner, James A. Visbeck, eyed the stranger...
...usually start a book--at the beginning, with Genesis. I read through Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, Samuel I & II. I thought Chronicles was kind of boring so I skipped over to Job (I remembered hearing about him before), Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon and Isaiah before my parents joined us three weeks later...
Thomas came inside and again told them she could stop worrying. He quoted scripture to them -- Isaiah 53: 5: ". . . and with his stripes we are healed...
...rights and ideals of democracy might be. John Stuart Mill, a passionate libertarian, was convinced that visions of freedom and happiness must be constantly discussed, altered and changed as societies change, lest they fall into "the deep slumber of a decided opinion." In our time, the British philosopher Isaiah Berlin has pointed out, "Men do not live < only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them...