Word: shadowed
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Left behind in the former heartland of European Jewry were 2 million, the dim shadow of a once vibrant community. Many were the elderly who could not face or afford the rigors of emigration. But most were the assimilated children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren--generations so thoroughly absorbed and secularized that their Jewishness seemed to consist of little more than distinctive surnames and distant memories...
Spring is just around the corner, at least according to Punxsutawney Phil, the famous forecasting groundhog in Punxsutawney, Pa. Phil did not see his shadow when pulled out of his burrow this morning. Only clouds. According to the century-old tradition, this means that spring will arrive early. Maybe so, but meterologists are predicting a winter storm on the east coast this weekend...
...Electronic town halls" featuring push-button voting have always faced one major rhetorical handicap: the long shadow of the Founding Fathers. The Founders explicitly took lawmaking power out of the people's hands, opting for a representative democracy and not a direct democracy. What concerned them, especially James Madison, was the specter of popular "passions" unleashed. Their ideal was cool deliberation by elected representatives, buffered from the often shifting winds of opinion -- inside-the-Beltway deliberation. Madison insisted in the Federalist Papers on the need to "refine and enlarge the public views by passing them through the medium...
...This generation is destined to enter the next century in a position economically, spiritually and politically inferior to their ancestors, who entered the 20th century in the shadow of slavery," Brown said...
Before Gingrich's ascendance, Robert Dole was the G.O.P.'s equivalent of a shadow President. At Newt's inaugural last week, the Senator from Kansas watched from the sidelines. He quickly exited after the festivities were over. Asked by TIME for his view of the events, he simply said, "I'd better get back to work." In the Senate the newly installed majority leader gave a speech more characteristic of Gingrich than the one the Speaker actually delivered, promising "to cut federal programs from A to Z, from Amtrak to zoological studies...