Word: redeeming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Unification Church believes the line of towering Judeo-Christian prophets begins with Noah, Abraham, Moses and Jesus, and is revived with Reverend Moon. According to this view, Christ redeemed man's spirit while Moon wants to redeem the whole man; to exalt his material side as well as his spiritual. This is why the Church encourages its members to found businesses and to give generously to the Church--actually just another version of the American Protestant work and tithe ethic...
...employees by resignation. Observed Stuart Greenbaum, a finance professor at Northwestern University: "The loss of self-respect and pride among people at the bank has been enormous." Now that a comeback could be under way, he adds, many employees will want to stick around and try to redeem their reputations along with that of the bank's. Continental may soon rekindle its archrivalry with crosstown competitor First Chicago...
...your help," he pleaded. "Don't leave me standing alone." Duarte, the first freely elected President in half a century, means to lead a country enduring a hellish civil war, where the ruling class has been particularly resistant to social reform. By trying to reform and perhaps even redeem El Salvador, he told one group, "I'm putting my life on the line." In 1972 he was imprisoned and beaten by the army he will now lead. Democratic Congressman Clarence Long of Maryland, a leading critic of Reagan's Latin American policies, was persuaded...
...knightly mission-the rescue of an entire continent in distress. There was an aspect of redemption in the drama, redemption in the Christian sense. The Old World, in centuries before, had tided westward to populate the New. Now the New World came back, out of the tide, literally, to redeem the Old. If there has sometimes been a messianic note in American foreign policy in postwar years, it derives in part from the Normandy configuration. America gave its begotten sons for the redemption of a fallen Europe, a Europe in the grip of a real Satan with a small mustache...
...moralizing. Knowlton feels compelled to describe everything, thus cluttering the book with distracting details. The lengthy descriptions of Caleb's office, for example, should have been trimmed, and more attention given to the woefully rushed moments of tension between parents, lovers and bosses. But paradoxically, these laborious description also redeem the book and make it worth our attention, no matter how much stylistic damage they wreak. Though The Real World fails as a piece of fiction, it offers sobering insight into the white collar world. Revealed in all its stark vacuity is the antiseptic, materialistic world of budget sheets, computers...