Word: owner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surely is not human. No matter how beautiful, it will not grow into adulthood, complete with a psyche of its own. If he insists on using the analogy, will Mr. Lichtman also argue that, like a human child, a work of art is in itself affected by its "owner"? Probably not, because after all, a work of art is a thing, while a human baby most definitely isn't. We are allowed to buy things. Do we want to be allowed to buy human beings...
Five-and-a-half years later, after the publication of his second novel, Of Time and the River, Wolfe traveled to Paris. There he met Sylvia Beach, owner of the noted English bookstore Shakespeare and Company. She thought Wolfe "indubitably a young man of genius" but "perhaps very unsatisfactory as a social being...
...fasting in his Tulsa Prayer Tower, a 200-ft.-tall glass- and-steel spire on the Oral Roberts University campus, and still awaiting this week's life-threatening deadline, despite a surprise stay of execution -- a gift of $1.3 million from Jerry Collins, a short, gruff dog-track owner from Sarasota, Fla. ("It's very seldom I ever go to church," said the philanthropic Collins. "I help them all.") Roberts, feeling perkier after the donation, proclaimed Bakker a "prophet of God," who had been victimized by an "unholy trio of forces," presumably referring to Swaggart, the Assemblies...
...latest episode of the Oral Roberts story neared its conclusion. It was on Bakker's show that Roberts said he needed only $1.3 million to reach his death-preventing money goal by the end of March. That apparently inspired a gift for precisely that amount last week from Collins, owner of two Florida dog-racing tracks with $50 million last year in gambling proceeds. Evangelicals consider gambling a sin, and the racetrack connection upset some old-time Roberts supporters...
...enhances privacy, call blocking is one of the more popular CLASS features. By punching a simple code into the phone, the user can program this service, which rejects calls from certain local numbers. To avoid having to talk to that former boyfriend or that pest of a salesman, the owner can direct the phone to generate a recorded message -- some version of "I'm sorry, the party you have dialed is not accepting your call at this time" -- whenever someone on the list tries to get through. Jeffrey Lipman, 35, a pharmacist in Harrisburg, Pa., has combined call blocking with...