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...left arm and forehead). Dylan from time to time has referred to his religious interests in language as elusive as the metaphors of his folk-rock anthems. Consider this recent observation: "Roots, man-check up on Elijah the prophet. He could make it rain. Isaiah the prophet, even Jeremiah, see if their brethren didn't want to bust their brains for telling it right like it is ... I ain't looking for roots in synagogues with six-pointed Egyptian stars, but, you know, it's sleepy time down south...
...staid Senate chamber, Republican Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah and his conservative allies pressed for a constitutional amendment that would overturn the historic 1973 Supreme Court decision (Roe vs. Wade) that guarantees women a constitutional right to abortion. "The country is on a slippery slope to infanticide," warned Senator Jeremiah Denton of Alabama. "Even dogs have more protection than the unborn," said Hatch. But after two days of speeches in a largely empty Senate chamber, the ten-word Hatch amendment fell 18 votes short of the required two-thirds majority last week and failed by two votes to muster even...
...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...