Word: referring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decidedly inaccurate to refer to Unitarianism as "a sort of vague Christianity without Christ." Although its early historical roots were in the Judaeo-Christian heritage, Unitarian religious philosophy has increasingly become a process of the rational-ethical-universal-mystical, and especially of the humanistic. These many tentacles represent a strength, not a diffusion...
...would be racists by nature. The migrants from southern Europe and the Middle East who settled in Sweden are not resented because of their coloring. They are resented, even hated, for their way of living off welfare, for which the home-grown Swede is highly taxed. The people you refer to as irresponsible, riotous hooligans are merely young patriots who wish to keep Sweden Swedish, and for this they should not be rebuked. This is not being racist...
...parts that Begin knows best are the countless verses of the Old Testament that refer to the existence of Erets Yisrael (the land of Israel) and to God's promise of a homeland for his chosen people. But Scripture is less precise about what the boundaries of that homeland ought to be. One of the earliest references is Genesis 15: 18: "In that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying: Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt [probably not the Nile, but the Wadi el Arish in the Sinai] unto...
...State Department they sometimes refer privately to Carter as "the missionary." His conduct-his human rights pronouncements, his visions of global disarmament, his policy of dispensing aid and arms according to his measure of the rectitude of various societies-sometimes does seem more emotional than practical. Add to that Rosalynn's and Secretary Cyrus Vance's Latin American entreaties on human rights and U.N. Ambassador Andy Young's thunder against white governments, past and present, and there are days when it seems we are getting nothing so much as a sermon...
...place of the action. Thus-to a Japanese theatergoer who knew the rules-a costume like the karaori robe in russet silk (see color] would at once suggest a Heian-period court, somewhere between A.D. 800 and 1200. The balls, woven with exquisite precision in raised white silk, refer to a Heian court game called kemari, an aristocratic and pointless kind of football with no rules. The game consisted of several players kicking a bean-stuffed ball around a courtyard in which stood certain trees-cherry, maple, pine, bamboo and (here worked in gold thread into the red ground) willow...