Word: nationhood
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...birth as a modern state in 1948. Many Orthodox Jews opposed the Zionist movement, which, starting in the late 19th century, called for a return to Palestine. For them, ^ there could be no Israeli state until the appearance of the Messiah. In order to overcome such objections to nationhood, David Ben-Gurion, the country's political founder, shaped an agreement with Jewish religious leaders in 1947 that attempted to define the role of religion in Israeli life. That declaration, known as the "status quo," made several key concessions to religious authorities. Among them was a pledge that the traditional Friday...
...Singh also named Sant Harchand Singh Longowal, 49, the Akali Dal's president and leader of the moderate faction within the party, to the committee. Longowal, a forceful advocate of struggle against what he calls an "unjust government" in New Delhi, does not subscribe to the idea of separate nationhood. After last week's bomb attacks, he resigned...
...remarkable poet of deep feeling and deep intelligence," said Professor of English Helen Vendler. "He has an extraordinary social vision, ranging from the large problem of nationhood down to the happiness and tragedy of individual life. His melody is like no one else...
...leave this bickering, fragmented country as he found it. A previous Prime Minister, the engaging Lester B. Pearson, gave us a flag. Trudeau, going one better, brought home a constitution, severing our last official colonial cord. Now that we've got some of the furniture of nationhood, all we need is a proper house...
...matter of noting, usually in silence, the common human displays of excellence and struggle, both against oneself and against time. Down on the track a hurdler runs like mad to beat time. Up in the stands the aging spectator beholds the perpetually young. They are connected not by nationhood...