Word: preach
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Menachem Begin refuses to struggle with this dilemma. He still likes to carry the blank check of Jewish history; he finds it useful in the conduct of government and war. "No one," Begin's government repeats with a baleful glare, "will preach to us ethics and respect for human life." Why not? Because of the record, because of pogroms and the 6 million dead in the Holocaust. There are many centuries in that line. Begin claims that as the Israeli dispensation. That is the moral capital of world Jewry, cataclysmically acquired. Do not presume to discuss suffering and death...
...question back him up.) Standing in the Knesset building before tapestries by Marc Chagall that depict historical Jewish scenes, Begin declared, "Nobody, nobody is going to bring Israel to her knees. You must have forgotten that Jews do not kneel but to God." He added, "Nobody is going to preach to us humanitarianism." As for the problem of getting the P.L.O. to leave Beirut, he vowed: "If they do not go, well, we shall have to solve that problem. The P.L.O. will not stay in Beirut or Lebanon. No sir. Out of the question...
...capacity for growth, and even the most deadpan hero can learn to appreciate an enemy. Neither happens in Blade Runner. Ultimately, we learn that the truth has been clear to Ford all along, but realization comes very late and very awkwardly. Life and liberty are everyone's right, preach the robots, one of whom grabs a white dove from the air as he "dies...
...gimmicks now decorating cash register counters at the Coop But in contrast to the merry Preppy Handbook and the 101-things to do with-a-cat books. How To smell rotten--like the kid who stole Geometry homework in the 10th grade. The authors seem to believe what they preach arguing earnestly. "It would be a shame it [any college student] should, through simple ignorance of the system, be rejected by every medical school in the world. "Their merciless blugeoning of the language only complicates the crime: "Comparing high school to college is like trying to compare a white Kleenes...
...activities are actually harmful to the poverty-stricken society in which she works. Repeating medieval ideas about human-sexuality, she opposes birth control and abortion--the only possible ways of reducing the overpopulation responsible for much of India's devastating poverty. She uses her asceticism as an excuse to preach against abortion, her one topic when addressing Western audiences...