Word: savioring
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...fact, a kind of savior. When she became a fadista in the late '30s, the fados were in bad flower because of their unpleasant exaltation of poverty, disease and death. Amália, reeking of pathos, rescued the art of the fado by lifting its emotional sights to the level of pain, nostalgia and despair. Such suffering is delicious to the Portuguese, and the fados cover everything-defeated souls, wasted nights, strange shadows. Americans who have a feeling for the blues can understand the spirit of the fado, but you ain't really been blue till...
...sect to divide religious people still further? There is a vast difference between an inclusive Brotherhood, modern in outlook and knowledge, where varying points of view are adjusted in the search for a fuller brotherhood, and the excluding, binding authoritative tradition built up over the centuries about a personal Savior or a chosen people...
...toilet chain." While balancing the Shemansky powers, crippled son Barish fiendishly maximizes tension and antagonism. Then there are the long-absent daughter, Yahina (another Ma in the making), her husband, Feivet, a deaf mute, and her son, Pildesh, who while urinating from a fourth floor window, tumbles out. The savior of this twisted family is old, orange-eyed. Vossen Gleich, with his lopsided chest ("one side sunk in, the other humped and swollen to his chin"), who ends his virginity with poor, sickly Mrs. Charpolsky--from downstairs...
...Sore Need. Curtis' principal financial savior is a short, Russian-born, multilingual financier named Serge Semenenko, 60. Vice chairman of Boston's old and eminently respectable First National Bank, Semenenko has long enjoyed a reputation in banking circles for rescuing failing corporations with timely infusions of credit. Among his patients: the Hearst publishing empire, which he helped cure, in the early 1940s, of a disastrous indebtedness of nearly $150 million. In the fall of 1962, when Curtis' new president, Matthew J. Culligan, approached Semenenko, the venerable magazine-publishing house stood in sore need of Semenenko...
When the Conquistadors came in 1519, they hoped to found not just a colony but a New Spain. Instead, the Mexicans absorbed the Spaniards. The viceroy took the place of Montezuma; Christ became the altar ego of the god Quetzalcoatl, the plumed serpent and savior who can both soar like a bird and slither like a snake. In 17th century crucifixes by Indian artisans, Christ's body does not hang upon the Cross, but becomes part of it, styled after pre-Columbian pieces in which animals and human figures became part of the pottery. In one oil, a viceroy...