Word: jeremiah
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...council delegates are Leverett House: Henry C. Chuen '84, Dora Y. Mao '84, Brace B. Ryan '84: North House: Roland I. Dunbrack Jr. '85: Winthrop: Jeremiah Brown Jr. '85: East Yard: Clark J. Freshman '86: Union Dorms: Angela Ferry...
Like some of the wilder prophets of the Old Testament-like Hosea or Micah or perhaps Jeremiah-Eliezer Perelman was a visionary possessed by one irresistible idea. He even spoke once of the transcendent moment in which it came to him: "Suddenly, like lightning before my eyes, my thoughts flew across the Balkans . . . to Palestine, and I heard a . . voice calling to me: The revival of Israel and its language in the land of its forefathers...
...poetic books, chapter after chapter is hacked away. Gone is fully half of the book of Psalms, which might now be better retitled David's Greatest Hits. The prophets are especially victimized. Besides large chunks, telling phrases are lost. Consider the felicitous line from Jeremiah: "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately corrupt." Snip out the last three words. Or this passage from Isaiah, immortalized in Handel's Messiah: "He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities." Away with the second phrase, on grounds of redundancy. So much for poetry...
...country runs and runs, from fear of death and pollution and old age as well as from longing for health, beauty and wellbeing. But what Americans will do with their revitalized corpora remains to be seen. Author Studs Terkel (Working) views the goings-on like a blue-collar Jeremiah. Says he: "Working on your body is narcissistic. It's basically a solo act. Narcissism comes when you're not connected to the rest of the world." By contrast, Dr. Dennis Colacino, director of the PepsiCo Fitness Programs, proclaims: "It gives people a better self-image. It helps...
...minutes of my life," she said with an anxious smile. Yet her fate was never in doubt. By a vote of 99 to 0,* the Senate made Judge O'Connor Justice O'Connor, the Supreme Court's first female member in its 191 years. Even Republican Jeremiah Denton of Alabama, the only member of the Judiciary Committee who refused to recommend O'Connor's confirmation, acquiesced this time. He confessed that colleagues warned him they would "laugh me out of the Senate" if he voted...