Word: saintedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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In the 1988 social survey Heaven: A History, Colleen McDannell and Bernard Lang observe that over two millenniums human conceptions of heaven tended to alternate between God-centered visions and more humanist arrangements focused primarily on the reunion and interactions of the sainted dead. Medieval heaven, approached intellectually by the...
That Rocky Second Marriage: Yasser Arafat won't take Benjamin Netanyahu's calls, King Hussein has had it with the tough-talking Israeli, and Netanyahu's idea of diplomacy is taking shots at both of his neighbors on a state visit to Moscow. Netanyahu's problem is that he's...
Is it better to remember or to forget? Forgetting--even without its sainted better half, forgiveness--is sometimes the only route to sanity. If only the Balkans, for example, could be enfogged by a massive forgetting. As it is, every generation of Serbs remembers, as if it were last Saturday...
More fleshed out is the man she married and, after two children, divorced--a New York literary agent identified only as "B." Coming from a family of Jewish left-wing intellectuals, he was the perfect Lochinvar to take her out of Rhode Island but not to replace her sainted father...
Oh, some people come--friends or roommates of players, usually. And these brave souls ought to be sainted.