Word: reigns
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This week an obscure literary journal, Druzhba Narodov (Friendship of Peoples), will publish the first of three monthly installments of Anatoli Rybakov's startling novel, Children of the Arbat, which takes place during Stalin's reign of terror. The publication has been eagerly anticipated by Soviet intellectuals for more than a year, and many are hailing it as the literary event of their generation. People who have already read the novel are heaping praise on it. "This is a great book, a great moment in our literature," declared Poet Yevgeni Yevtushenko. "Rybakov was the man to do this...
...just anger at the South African backed UNITA rebels, who fight to topple the Angolan government; it's not just sympathy with the people of Nicaragua, who endure the contra war; it's not just solidarity with the people of El Salvador, whose "democratic" government pursues a reign of terror against them. It's not just empathy, anger, sympathy, and solidarity which brings people to Washington, but it's an even more striking moral issue--responsibility...
...trend in many churches toward inclusive language in Scripture and worship, the new NAB avoids male terms for generalized human references (for example, "one" replacing "man"). The editors decided, however, not to alter male references to God and Jesus and to retain "kingdom of God" because the phrase "reign of God" seems to refer to precipitation when read aloud...
Professional wrestling has never been better and more action-packed, but don't ask this fan to turn his attention to king Kong Bundy's reign of pain. He's been too wrapped up in the strange and wonderful burden of choosing. Harvard's 1986-'87 All-Hockey team...
While there is some question whether this and several other of the earliest recorded sightings involved actual exploding stars, there is little doubt about the guest star of A.D. 185. "Second year of the Chung-p'ing reign period," reads an ancient Chinese text, "tenth month, day kuei-hai, a guest star appeared within nanmen. It was as large as half a mat; it was multicolored, and it scintillated. It gradually became smaller and disappeared in the sixth month of the year after next." The description, especially concerning the brightness and slow fade of the star, seems to confirm...