Word: meaningfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The fastest-growing force in the Arab world today is that of the fedayeen, meaning "men of sacrifice." An estimated 24,000 strong, they are terrorists in the eyes of the Israelis, but daring commandos to admiring Arabs. Operating mainly from Jordan against Israeli-occupied territory, they are amply supplied...
The winner was Chobyo Yara, 65, a onetime high school physics teacher who campaigned on the simple platform of fukki, meaning literally "return again," or reunion with Japan at once. His conservative opponent, Junji Nishime, called for ittaika, literally "making one body," or reunion with Japan in a more gradual...
It appears to be Paul's view that the Second Vatican Council marked the limits of possible reform. For many Catholic progressives, the conciliar decrees were just a starting point. Vatican II, for example, established the principle of collegiality-meaning that bishops share ruling power over the church with...
Like a land mine under a cathedral, the original manuscript of The Waste Land has been hidden at the New York Public Library. Only a few people have known that it is there. Eliot himself believed it to be lost, and is thought to have hoped for oblivion for it...
A NOTE about the bullfight (this is an analogy I like to use because I like bullfights and I think they would be wonderful for NCAA competition, untelevized): What is important in the bullfight is the killing of a living, breathing thing. It is final and absolute and there is...