Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...continued to reshape traditional Jewish customs and worship toward the image of Protestantism. The vernacular replaced Hebrew as the principal language of worship; organ music and Sunday services became widely popular. Confirmation replaced the bar mitzvah; dietary restrictions were relaxed. While Orthodox Jews continued to pray, in the traditional phrase, for their return "next year" to Jerusalem, Reform Jews became anti-Zionist, awaiting instead a "universal" kingdom...
Arlen deftly interweaves episodes in the Hanrahan trial with scenes showing the inner workings of the city. His descriptive mistakes show some unfamiliarity with the details of Chicago life, but his overall analysis is remarkably perceptive. Arlen can start with a little episode or a single phrase and eventually sum up an attitude of the police or an ethnic group or even the changing moods which strike a whole city...
Chicago political figures tend to make brash and revealing statements which less entrenched politicians in other cities might phrase more delicately. Arlen capitalizes on this characteristic. With a single quotation, for example, he sums up the attitude of city officials across the country toward police excess. "Eddie overplayed it," he quotes one of Hanrahan's friends as saying. "He never figured that Panther raid would blow...
...PHRASE "WOMEN'S GROUP" must mean more than the sum of its two words. Does every group of women, gathered for whatever purpose, fit into this category? Probably not. Otherwise feminists could not use the term so freely when they wanted to indicate a radical gathering of like-minded women to foster social change for the benefit of women...
...Watergate and related events emerged in congressional hearings and in the press, many patriotic Americans were nagged by a sense of disproportion. Crookedness and corner cutting? Yes. Crimes? No doubt?but after all, as the phrase went, "No one was killed." How could these acts, however shady or offensive, be weighed against the life-and-death responsibilities of the President? This rationalization will not stand; a President's "big decisions" cannot be put into a compartment separate from his other actions, his total behavior. His integrity and trustworthiness are perhaps the most important facts about him to his country...