Word: solomons
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...presidential box at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to see a play. But that afternoon he got a call from the White House congressional liaison office inquiring about his position on the budget plan. "Leaning against," he replied. His tickets were canceled. New York Congressman Gerald Solomon complained that Bush had telephoned him at his home at 6:45 a.m. to solicit his support and that Sununu made a follow-up call two hours later. "They're threatening me," said Solomon, "and they better not." Like Regula, Solomon voted against the plan...
Bloom sees J as a single individual who wrote after Solomon's reign 29 centuries ago but displays a modernistic skepticism and worldliness. Though he maintains that J's "power as a writer made Judaism, Christianity and Islam possible," Bloom believes she harbored neither love nor awe of God. He conceives of her as more blasphemous than Salman Rushdie in portraying the Deity as impish and arbitrary...
Here and in many others of Heaney's poems, body and land are one: the undersoil is richly strewn with bits of bone from people who have lived and died in the past. "Bone Dreams" (1975) recalls the Song of Solomon, as the bodies of the poet and his lover merge into the landscape...
...final Columbia drive of the game, it was Gordian to the rescue again, picking off an under-thrown Mayhew pass intended for Solomon Johnson...
Wake Up!: Not only did both offenses fail to produce much excitement, but there were very few bone-jarring tackles either. Aside from a few pops by linebackers Gordian and Barry Lausch, the biggest hit of the game may have come in the third quarter, when Columbia's Solomon Johnson was chased out of bounds and bowled over one of the older sideline photographers...