Word: ponderer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proliferation of new Bibles is a mixed blessing. The English-speaking world has lost a resounding common text that shored up faith and lived hi the memory of millions. The new texts, however, represent attempts to live with change and challenge readers to ponder anew the spirit and the message of Scripture. -By Richard N. Ostling...
...idea of a national literature, sought an American Milton enthusiastically while quietly harboring fears and doubts that America could produce one. The beauty of Delbanco's essay resides in its expansiveness: it opens outward from Channing's life to ask larger questions, and leaves the reader something to ponder. Comparing Channing to Henry Adams, the author illuminates a man who "asked the overwhelming question of his century and ours: whether the world is spinning into chaos, or, after a long penance, tapping the divine. That question, which now as then elicits all the varying strategies of self-defense--embarrassment, indifference...
That photo finish was not the only dramatic moment in a competition of many twists and triumphs. Handicappers looking to the 1984 Olympic Games could find much to ponder in the World Championships. Elaine Zayak, the 15-year-old American buzz saw who hurtles into triple jumps with wild abandon, served notice that she will soon be a major force in figure skating (see box), finishing second in the women's competition. A stylish Swiss, Denise Biellmann, 18, showed a few complicated moves of her own and took the gold. And once more, the Soviets proved that at least...
...this Lolita suggests very simply that Nabokov's is not a novel for the stage. In print the author can swathe the transgression he is describing in bundles of carefully selected sentences that, by explaining, defending, or indicting Humbert's obsession, make us ponder its meaning. On stage, nothing tempers the nakedness of the act; and when Albee's Lolita takes off her bathrobe to say, "Come and get it, Daddy," or buries her face in Humbert's groin, Richardson must literally draw a curtain over the scene--a comic gesture that only underscores Albee's inability to find...
...mother left me waiting for her, and established in me the habit of waiting and expectation which makes any present moment most significant for what it does not contain." Fingerbone ("a meager and difficult place") and the vast Northwest surrounding it give the growing girl plenty of emptiness to ponder...