Word: spirtualized
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...midst of my spirtual doubt, I'm wondering. Perhaps people read the Square Deal. Perhaps buried deep inside it is The Answer to All Questions. Perhaps the meaning of life has been sitting there all along, and I just haven't looked...
Also today, Sheik Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah was quoted as saying in Beirut that Western hostages in Lebanon should not suffer because of the missile attack on the Iran Air jet. Fadlallah is spirtual guide for Hezbollah, the Shiite Moslem group believed to be an umbrella for the captors of most of the 18 foreign hostages in Lebanon...
There is the mystery of Bechstein's spiritual state. Which life will become his model, that of his father--a lord of the underworld--or of Cleveland--an insouciant motorcylist? The two sit on opposite ends of Bechstein's spirtual seesaw. His father, head of a numbers racket and prostitution ring, is willing to forget the past in order to enjoy the present, and the world be damned. Cleveland, who would like to get involved in the same underworld life, hangs out at the Cloud Factory--the name he assigns to one of Pittsburgh's omnipresent smokestacks--his thoughts often...
...service's end, after French poetry, an old spirtual, the second movement of Dvorak's "American Quartet," and a period of silence, everyone joined in singing "Amazing Grace" led by the Kuumba Singers...
...will contribute to the greater good of all. Now this assumption, as handy as it might be for the world's voracious strivers, presents a considerable affront to those who think greed is a bad thing, among whom, I suspect, is Galbraith. So while Adam Smith and his spirtual heirs, from Alfred Marshall to Milton Friedman to Arthur Laffer, contorted the concept of greed into a good thing, Galbraith said no; greed exists, and will ensure the production of privately produced goods, but society needs a counterforce to the less noble parts of man's character--a democratically elected government...