Word: murrayism
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...many shadings, but the essential intent was to minimize friction during passage through an often abrasive society. To be nice, by some gentile measure, was more than a question of etiquette. It was a "sacred canon," Silberman says. Service to that canon became, in the words of Sociologist John Murray Cuddihy, "the ordeal of civility." Of all the problems faced by Jews since their earliest days in America--and Silberman covers most of them--the endless struggle over identity seems most fraught with anguish. Early arrivals in the new country found a society more tolerant than it was to become...
Throughout Faust's ordeal, though especially in this last 5-6 season, he and his team have experienced such infernal luck that the university's puckish publicist Roger Valdiserri has been sighing, "You'd think Madalyn Murray O'Hair was our spiritual adviser." But beyond the bad breaks, the coach was also inclined to try 52-yd. field goals in head winds when a punt was preferable to a prayer. "Blessed Mother," Faust murmured on the sidelines, "haven't you tested me enough?" His players mumbled much the same thing. In light of such failed piety, Notre Dame's traditional...
...media have played an important role in educating the public, says Dr. Evert Ketting of the Dutch Mental Health Center, citing frequent broadcasts on birth control, abortion and related issues. "We've been told that no Dutch teenager would consider having sex without birth control," says Guttmacher Spokeswoman Jane Murray. "It would be like running a red light...
After Ms. Music’s final college exam, Mr. Murray presented her with his grandmother’s engagement ring at the Bombay Club, the site of their first official date together. He had already received her parents’ approval, after e-mailing them in Spanish (a language he had just started learning at the start of the semester). When she accepted, he showed her the e-mail. “It was very sweet to see my mother’s words,” Ms. Music says. “Amara was also super happy because...
Next year, Mr. Murray will be working for Mercer Management Consulting Group in Boston, and Ms. Music will begin classes at Harvard Business School alongside another Murray: Ethan’s 24-year-old brother, Abraham...