Word: sound
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...sound bizarre, but since its inception in 1982. "Volunteers for Israel" has channelled the work of more than 1500 American and 300 French citizens toward the assistance of Israel. This year the program hopes to send 2000 Americans and 900 Frenchmen to work on Israeli army bases...
What motivates a person to go into the world's most dangerous and violent places, to share the risks of soldiers in battle or civilians caught in war's destruction, in order to record such sights on film? Photographer James Nachtwey makes it sound simple. Says he: "There is a job to be done-to record the truth. And I have a terrific personal compulsion to do it." In the past three years, that impulse has repeatedly taken Nachtwey into some of the main cockpits of violence: Central America, the Middle East, Northern Ireland. Last year, on assignment...
...said hearing is the only faculty she has had diminish. She possesses good eyesight, imagination and memory. "The memory is a well," she said, "united" with the imagination in producing fiction. "Whatever you send down it comes back up deeper." From down the street there came the sound of little girls singing, a Ring-Around-the-Rosy sort of lyric, and if Welty did not hear it, it was nothing she had not heard before. Comes the day she needs the sound of child song for a page, she will remember it, sharply. -By Gregory Jaynes
...phone to Ethel Kennedy and told her, "We have found your son and the paramedics have arrived." Recalls Beebe: "She said, 'He's dead, isn't he?' I said, 'I'm sorry, yes.' She made a mother's sound, a strange sound, like a gasp, and hung up the phone...
...book, Keane records his occasional differences with church teaching on matters like homosexuality, but is always careful in describing official doctrine. In 1977 Archbishop Richard Hunthausen of Seattle granted the book his imprimatur (Latin for "let it be printed"), which signified his judgment that the book was theologically sound. But as a spokesman for Hunthausen put it last week, "the archbishop had one notion of what imprimatur meant and the Holy See understood something else." At the order of Rome's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the imprimatur has been lifted. The move had symbolic import...