Word: messiahs
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...Comrade Messiah? As it was, the only negative sentiment was voiced by former Party Secretary-General Arieh Eliav. "This program is brought before us with the lashing of the whip of time and the scourge of haste and panic!" he shouted. "There are many in this land whose souls weep in silence because of this document. I will be the voice of the ideological Jewry of silence and never, at no price and in no forum, will I ever vote for this document." Sneered Golda Meir: "I have lived through 50 years of political activity and never before have...
Restic, fresh from a sojourn in the wide-open Canadian Football League and blessed (as one writer reported at the time) with "the most brilliant football mind in North America," was billed as the gridiron messiah to lead Harvard out of the intercollegiate wilderness...
...most painfully whether, the big firecracker just wasn't much to begin with, just wasn't the kind of night illumination that the Cambridge sky longed for, just wasn't the thing that would be accepted at Harvard and which would make him in a matter of instants a messiah, a come-again-Christ in the urban and academic wilderness. Harry who is now gone. What are you going to do about Harry...
...Days of Simon Stern is a book possessed by its Jewishness, its particularity (a favorite Cohen word). The reader gradually finds himself watching for signs and portents and, incredibly, patiently awaiting a messiah...
Cohen's messiah is as odd, as unexpected, as much of a stumbling block to credulity as most messiahs. His name is Simon Stern. He was born in 1899, the son of Polish immigrants to New York's Lower East Side. Simon's father works in a tailor shop. His mother tends a vegetable stall. Simon's life is devoted to a most worldly obsession-money...