Word: servants
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...public servant must anticipate setbacks as well, he noted...
...child killer who fantasizes and masturbates about murdering boys. "There has to be some check on what children are reading," she argues. Houston eighth-grade English teacher Susan Duhon agrees that teachers must be sensitive to the wishes of the community. "I am a team player and a public servant," says Duhon, who 10 years ago enraged some parents when she used adult novels from a list by the National Council of Teachers of English for a book fair. Now, she says, her classroom selections come mostly from "dead white men," but it's a choice she vigorously defends. Says...
Moreover, perhaps the greatest lesson that I have learned is that the students of this campus don't just want a servant. They want a leader. Without doubt, I served. I put in the hours and the days and the weeks and the months, certainly the sweat and on some occasion the tears. I did things past presidents would have considered unpresidential--like wear sandwich boards and bring poster board to meetings to make signs to help delegates advertise events...
...then, "at last," writes Kirsch, "Moses seemed to run out of both laws and memories." The 120-year-old "went up from the steppes of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the summit of Pisgah, opposite Jericho," recounts the Bible. And then, "Moses the servant of the Lord died there at the command of the Lord. He [God] buried him in the valley in the land of Moab, near Beth-peor; and no one knows his burial place to this day." There follows this spare but eloquent elegy. "Never again did there arise in Israel a prophet like Moses--whom...
...novel opens about two generations before the Holocaust in the Austrian village of Neufeld. There, a young civil servant named Karl has just converted from Judaism to Christianity, thereby following in the footsteps of almost all of the Jews in the city. His reasoning is that he wishes to be promoted to municipal secretary, a position he has been working toward for 17 years but also a position which his faith has prevented him from achieving. Christian sentiment, however, scorns the newly converted as Jewish at the core in spite of any baptism ceremony they may have undergone. Karl, while...