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...Callahan says "sacred imagery is almost irresistible" at the Super Bowl. Did he think it a wonder that St. Francis overcame mortal Cincinnati...
...unearthly silence settled over Jerusalem. Israel's premonition of living in a friendless world determined on the nation's destruction was fulfilling itself. Israeli children were in mortal danger even while peace negotiations were going on. And yet in its crisis Israel behaved with stoic endurance. Golda, who had bitterly fought every concession, sent Dinitz to my suite to reaffirm her deep commitment to the success of the negotiations. She knew I was frustrated by the endless Talmudic quibbling by which the Syrian recovery of Quneitra was being established in increments of 100 meters. Her gesture toward peace while...
...downhill a racer is to hear the wind rushing by so fast it screams. To be a downhill racer is to know there are only 218 centimeters of fiberglass between mortal flesh and the earth whipping past at 75mph. To be a downhill racer is to use all your strength and concentration to reach skiing's outer limits. And only one women at Harvard can tell you what it's like...
...world, by cooperating to give the poorest people of the world a new ideal and thereby redefining its own much-emulated modernity. The new America will be electrified and mobilized by the tragedy which is not so much that of the individual as it is that of global neighborly, mortal man, who can marshall energies of a magnitude hardly thought possible, to realize his free choice of and commitment to a world good for more than one's limited self...
...full-bellied 232 lbs. and a month from 40, he looks eminently mortal, not just paunchy but puffy, not only old but tired. "But, see, still smooth," he says, petting his face. "Nose in place, eyebrows untwisted. Show me a scratch anywhere...