Word: rejection
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...studying prosody is as natural as a painter learning to draw before he learns to paint. That's not to say that they must write in form for the rest of their lives. But they should know it exists before they reject it. As a writer I find it useful to have all the tools that I can before making choices. Similarly, I want my students to know all they can before they choose what to accept or reject...
...think of myself as a reluctant Catholic, certainly not a satirical one. I think of insurrection as being a part of my faith, as much as piety. Obviously you can't be gay and be in the Church without rejecting a great deal. That's someting irreconcilable. Finally, of course, the Church is greater than the men who lead it, and there's too much about it that's helpful to me--prayer and communion, to name just two--to reject it outright...
...world do not consider the plight of the Palestinians rings hollow. Leading thinkers like Amos Oz have helped build the Israeli consensus for peace by critiquing flaws in the Zionist dream. Yet just as the Israeli public must recognize its moral imperative to stay committed to peace, Palestinians must reject a path to self-determination which is bloodied with the death of the innocent. Where are the Palestinian voices of self-critique that must speak up against the radical brutality of groups like Hamas...
Tadros and others in the Palestinian community must strongly reject those leaders in their own ranks whose stated goals are the destruction of Jewish lives and the state of Israel, and whose avowed means are violence and terror. We need a meaningful peace, not historical recapitulation, to heal the wounds of the past...
...expected, the council also took up thematter of the Corporation's decision to reject oneof the Faculty's recommendations on benefits,which dominated Tuesday's Faculty Meeting...