Word: redeeming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Governor Orval Faubus had one admonition: "Think of Arkansas first in all that you do." That was in 1955, and since then Millionaire Winthrop Rockefeller, a transplanted New Yorker, has certainly paid heed to Orval's words. In fact, he has perhaps done too well at helping Arkansas redeem itself from poverty. For Democrat Faubus is now trying to oust Republican Rockefeller from the A.I.D.C. chairmanship...
...works, which were savagely attacked by such early Christian apologists as St. Irenaeus, Valentinus argued that the real God was hidden to men's eyes; earth, the realm of evil, had been created by a lesser, malevolent deity. Jesus had been sent by the hidden God to redeem the world from this demiurge, and had imparted a secret wisdom, or gnosis, to the select few who were destined to be saved...
...female majority of novel readers may enjoy being told that "to worship woman is to redeem the world." The Western male, however, may feel as mixed up as the lady who called Rama a "lecherous eunuch," and wonder about the Eastern profundities that sprinkle the book like sacred coconut in the curry. Example: "What is holiness but the assurance man has of himself?" Nor is there much help from the book's epigraph which quotes from the guru: "Waves are nothing but water. So is the sea." While conceding that it probably sounds better in Sanskrit, the bemused Westerner...
Sensing the Frenchman's mounting impatience with inconvenience and inertia, Gaullists have ambitious schemes for rural development ("gardening the national territory"), urban improvement, school construction to redeem what one minister calls "our terrible rendezvous with youth." The nation's administrative structure, which has wheezed along with little change since Napoleon's time, will be modernized. Gaullist technicians are already planning to overhaul Paris. Though 18% of the entire population is concentrated in the capital and growing by 100,000 a year, officialdom seems more concerned with preserving old houses than providing new ones. Says one minister...
...permanently good or evil in a Borges story. A traitor at one time becomes a hero at another, a friend an enemy. Reputations are strangely inverted. In one story, a theologian reasons that Judas was actually God, because God would have chosen the "vilest destiny of all" to redeem mankind. In another, the fearsome Minotaur of Greek legend turns out to be sad at being hated by men, and longs for death at the hands of Theseus...