Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Saturday. In Israel, the beaches were crowded, food was being cooked, and a modern government transacted business as usual, but in the house of Zvi Rabin-sohn, the Lord's day was being kept. In a sparsely furnished living room at Mikve Israel (an agricultural school near Tel Aviv), Zvi's son Solomon was reading aloud from the Bible; Zvi himself, a fragile old man with a flowing white beard, lay on a couch listening. Just then, a U.S. newsman came in to ask some questions about another member of the family...
...Parnell's old garden at Avondale at Wicklow. But in the rest of Eire, trees are grown on only 1.6% of the land. Eire is, indeed, the most treeless country of Europe. Why? To a Dublin meeting of a dendrologists' organization called Men of the Trees, Lord Dunsany sent a caustic reason. "I never knew an Irishman," he wrote, "having access to a platform who could not make an admirable speech in favor of trees, or any having access to an ax who did not cut down all the trees within his reach...
...music was still in his head. Two years ago he went up to Edinburgh with an idea for a festival. The Lord Provost, Sir Jon Falconer, liked it. Bing wrung pledges for ?60,000 from Edinburgh merchants, the Art Council of Great Britain and the City of Edinburgh. Then he wrote to Bruno Walter: "If we can get the Vienna Philharmonic to come, will you come to conduct it?" Walter quickly said yes. "After that," says Bing, "it was easy. When artists were diffident, it was only necessary to tell them Bruno Walter was coming...
...CONSECRATION : "You simply stand there and record a piece of history. In recording that piece of history, it becomes necessary to recite some words our Lord used; and so ... you do what you came there to do; or rather, you don't do it, you suddenly pull yourself together and realize that our Lord's words, even relaid on such lips as yours, have done...
...appearance of man . . . with his generalized form, and his ability to adapt himself to changing environment, brought on the scene the 'lord of creation' who was flexible enough to survive a variety of changes . . . This generalization has been both the strength and the weakness of man . . . While . . . specialized species either perished ... or stagnated in static societies . . . man rose from precariousness to precariousness . . . The point I want to make is that biological specialization can eventually lead to ... destruction or to a treadmill of repetition...