Word: renew
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Since World War II, Toynbee observed, "this simple but effective British philosophy" helped turn the 19th century Empire into the 20th century Commonwealth, and powered a social revolution at home. "Achievements," he concluded, "are wasting assets, and nothing but unremitting hard work can ever renew them. In a world in which Americans, Russians, Chinese and Japanese, as well as Continental Europeans, are all working like beavers, can any nation afford to sit back and rest on its oars...
...last chapter of the book of Joshua, the leader of the people, now very old, calls all the tribes of Israel to Shochem to renew their covenant with the Lord. Joshua sets beneath the sacred oak a great stone (the sacred Pillar) to serve as a witness of the covenant, "a witness against you, lest you deny your...
...rare are councils?there have been only 20 in the nearly 2,000 years of Christian history?that merely by summoning Vatican II to "renew" the Roman Catholic Church Pope John made the biggest individual imprint on the year. But revolutions in Christianity are even rarer (the Reformation was 400 years ago), and John's historic mission is fired by a desire to endow the Christian faith with "a new Pentecost," a new spirit. It is aimed not only at bringing the mother church of Christendom into closer touch with the modern world, but at ending the division that...
Secret Heart. In trying to prove his thesis that ancient myths embody intuitive wisdom that is only now being proved out, Eliot indulges himself in many a long reach. Aphrodite, goddess of love, was able to renew her virginity simply by bathing in the sea. Now "astrophysicists relate that our life-giving sun renews its virginity also, by dint of a circular chain reaction. Every nucleus of carbon and nitrogen in the sun returns to its pure state once in five million years." This is ingenious rather than convincing, provocative rather than wise. And in his secret heart, Eliot knows...
...Rather than renew the lease on their Virginia estate Glen Ora, the President and his wife will let it go in January and perhaps look around the countryside for a suitable site on which to build a home. J.F.K. never particularly liked Glen Ora anyway, and Jacqueline used it chiefly as a home base for rides to the hounds...