Word: leaveners
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...best of our new political thinkers will respond to the problems of concentrated wealth. As opportunities for unlimited wealth decrease, tax and economic policies must be used to leaven society lest it become two-class - the rich and all the rest...
...explains, the plagues were considered "unworthy of enlightened sensitivities." The climactic, ringing phrase "Next year in Jerusalem!" was omitted too. It seemed overly Zionist to many Reform Jews of the time. The diligent preparations for Passover were given short shrift. Discussing the traditional pre-Seder search for hametz (the leavened, potentially leavened and leaven-tainted food that must be removed from use during Passover), the 1923 rite condescendingly described it as "a quaint ceremony ... still observed by the Orthodox Jews...
...other major roles include an old fop who presages decay, and a satanic barber who rouges the hero's face for his final and failing encounter with Tadzio. All are emanations of death, and all are sung with a consummate leaven of evil power by another Britten regular, Bass-Baritone John Shirley-Quirk...
...process he examined members of his immediate family. In the hands of a less positive narrator and a less compassionate judge of exceptional human conduct, the biography-might have suffered from myopic and a tendency towards authoritarianism. Bell, with his memory of his aunt, is privileged to add the leaven of personal recollection to his to his cautious, startling insights...
...position of endorsing a product, the service reserves the right to pass on each ad. The arrangement enables the service to use commercial ads to spread its prime message-the public must protect U.S. woodlands threatened by fire and commercial timber demands -while allowing companies to leaven their sales pitches with a pinch of altruism...