Word: savioring
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...savior of Argentina this time round, he must first do a better job than he has to date of pacifying the Peronistas. It looms as a major undertaking. Yet it is small compared with the task of inspiring Argentines as a people to unite in a common, selfless cause. Historically, Argentina has been victimized by selfishness, on the part of both its leaders and its people. "There is no community in Argentina," laments H. A. Murena, a noted Argentine novelist. "We do not form a body, though we may form a conglomeration. Instead of stability, Argentina has rancorous, factious chaos...
...token of the holocaust that consumes Jews by the millions in World War II. Simon's obsession with the cycles of buying and selling transfers to the cycles of his race: holocaust, Diaspora, and return. The total financier from the Lower East Side becomes just as totally the savior. He sets up a Society for the Rescue and Resurrection of the Jews. In 1945, he recruits survivors of Buchenwald for quite another kind of compound-the society's "fortress," built into the Lower East Side behind the blocks of Simon Stern real estate accumulated like so many walls...
...evil is universal, good, he insists, is particular. How, he seems to ask, can men come to terms with their enemies and themselves and perhaps even with their God without the promise of a savior? Yet, the world being what it is, how can that savior help failing? The author may not quite make the Jew into Everyman. But in the end he does something even bolder: he makes Everyman...
...retiring as president, Hayakawa, 66, was presented by dissident students with a T shirt emblazoned with a swastika. "To some of you, I am a racist pig," responded Hayakawa. "To others, I am the savior of the university." But he had had enough of both roles. "I would hate like hell to do this again," said the semanticist in simple English...
...either mismanaged or overmanaged. The tyrant may be a king or he may, as happened in the case of Prometheus, be Zeus himself. Out of compassion for the tyrant's suffering victims, out of a superb but frightening presumption, the hero ultimately proposes himself as "mediator and savior." He will rebel. He will disturb the existing order-even risk chaos-to secure a new covenant with power...