Word: savioring
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...Quarry, Duerrenmatt, who studied philosophy before he became a writer, seems to have added a new spiritual element of hope. A man's dogged, defenseless, hopeless commitment to the pursuit of justice-even, like Barlach's, to the point of sacrificing his own life-may bring a savior named Gulliver to the rescue...
...choice, is now begining to debate whether-and how-it should use that medium for society's good as well as its own. If admen are often fair game for critics, it may well be because they have too often pictured themselves as society's savior instead of its servant. "Some admen get pompous," snaps Foote Cone's Fax Cone, "and they come out with statements such as, 'Our lives are better because of advertising.' This is not true. Our lives are better with advertising, but not because...
...bland and unassuming Northwesterners suddenly close ranks against the wild man from the East. His teaching career in ruins, saddled with Pauline Gilley and her two children, Levin departs-uncertain to the very end whether he is Pauline's savior or her victim...
Listening to the man and watching his antics, some in the world gave him a loud raspberry. Paris' tart-tongued France-Soir compares him to "Marx-not Karl, but Harpo." Yet Brazil's common man calls him "messiah," "the savior," "the healer of our ills." As Quadros flogs his nation along his chosen path, other voices can be heard calling him "paranoiac," "autocrat," "dictator." Rio's Governor Carlos Lacerda, formerly a Quadros supporter, now a bitter critic, once termed him "the most changeable, the most mercurial, the most perfidious of all men ever to emerge in Brazil...
...savior of the team, however, was not Mullin. Mullin was expected to be good and he came through. But Howard, who never even ran the event until after the Cornell loss, turned in a very consistent record for the year, usually finishing a little behind sophomore Ed Hamlin and just ahead of captain Jed Fitzgerald...