Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Translated phrase by phrase by interpreters supplied by the host churches, Graham's sermons were generally familiar, but the words had special power in the context of militant state atheism: "Jesus Christ is not dead on the Cross. He is a living Christ. He can come to your person. He can come to your family. He can come to your great country." This time there was no propaganda harvest for Radio Moscow...
Instead, Graham sought to assure the Soviets that Americans and President Reagan desire peace. But he consistently and deftly attached his hopes for world peace to the need for divine intervention - in his oft-used phrase, "peace with...
...same time, "Research needs are not a matter of current interest," she says, noting that Harvard seeks not only to add books which are needed now, but books that might not be needed until 50 years from now. "I always like to use a phrase that's a Chinese expression: learning is like sailing against the tide--if you don't advance, you're retreating," Feng says...
...century the punishing cycle of a woman's life and the pendulum of history had swung women's status back to just about where it was 100 years before. But in the meantime, women had talked. Women had thought for themselves. In Eraser's phrase, history held the door open briefly and, as we who read the 17th century with 20th century eyes know, nothing was ever quite the same again...
Part spiritual and part sexual, that exclamation is about as neat as the package gets: a tidy summation of the worldly power as well as the almost religious delirium of good old rock 'n' roll. The phrase was popularized by Mr. Richard Penniman of Macon, Ga., who used it both as a song title and as a kind of revival call-and-response as he rocked, in concert, with the forces of Satan. Mr. Penniman, known to a wondering world as Little Richard, let blast with rock of such demented power, performed from the 1950s through...