Word: messiahs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...outcomes of desires. It makes time maddeningly elastic: it has a way of seeming to compact eternity into a few hours. Yet its brackets ultimately expand to the largest dimensions. One waits for California to drop into the sea or for "next year in Jerusalem" or for the Messiah or for the Apocalypse. All life is a waiting, and perhaps in that sense one should not be too eager for the wait to end. The region that lies on the other side of waiting is eternity. -By Lance Morrow
...internal security force, three men were arrested. They turned out to belong to a fanatical Jewish group, with headquarters in the Lifta Valley near Jerusalem, that believes the mosques on the Temple Mount must be razed and the Second Temple, which was destroyed in 70 A.D., rebuilt before the Messiah can come. A fourth man was captured last week. Had the attack succeeded, it would have had violent repercussions throughout the Middle East...
...making of the picture kept being put off, and the stockbroker's son from Yakima, Wash., held on to his dream of playing Paul Atreides, the charismatic messiah of the Dune pentalogy...
...involving mailings to thousands of educators, and air travel for the four candidates to criss-cross the country. Harvard finally chose its top administrator. One Crimson editor said of the new president, "He's Derek Bok, he's the Answer, the Savior, the Lucky Ticket, the Academy Messiah...
Some 13 years later, with student riots the thing of nostalgia pieces, and hardly the overbearing threat that could effectively halt classes and occupy University Hall, Harvard's Messiah seems remarkable mortal--mortal enough to fuel occasional speculation over his successor...