Word: onwards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...days swing onward, galumph, galumph, students leap from their carrels out into the snow-less Yard ("I am not a prodigious leaper. I am a bird"). Lights burn late in House rooms ("Look at it this way, Silas, Louis Quinze is to the Pompadour as you are to ... "). Some seek recourse to the warm reassurance of love not dependent on academic achievement ("Sally, if I were stupid would you still love me the way I love you?"). Others seek recourse to the warm reassurance of physical exhilaration independent of academic achievement ("I'm not going to get out of shape...
Whew! prayers were smoldering, eyes were moist, a first strike of prayers soared the the Kremlin. As the band played Onward, Christian Soldiers, the collected evangelicals leaped to their feet in awe, realizing that the state of their art had reached a new pinnacle. Of course, the fallout started minutes later, in the media...
...Association of Evangelicals loved it, and gave Reagan a thunderous ovation, to strains of "Onward, Christian Soldiers." In the secular realm, less fervently religious elements didn't quite seem to know how to digest the rhetoric, so they ended up dismissing it. The editorial page of the New York Times and House Speaker Tip O'Neill Jr. both softly chided the President, while confidently predicting a return of the same politics of compromise. A Reagan staffer remark typified the general lack of serious concern about the speech: "What? That's just rhetoric...
...groups. And while increasingly strident, confrontationist posturing will bring the world closer to nuclear war, millions of people in the countries south of the U.S. will suffer under military rule, with body counts growing every day. All of which should be good for a few more rousing strains of "Onward, Christian Soldiers" at next year's convention of the National Association of Evangelicals...
...spent his life surrounded by family. When he was born, in Hoboken, N.J., he had already accumulated 32 first cousins. His parents, German immigrants grown wealthy in America, gave him five younger siblings, some of whom spent their lives wondering when Alfred would ever grow up. From his teens onward, when he was drawn to photography and modernism in painting and sculpture, the bourgeois he most wanted to épater were his closest kinfolk. Yet he was free to indulge in bohemian pursuits, secure in the knowledge that his family could, however grudgingly, afford...