Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...head off those possibilities, the government is now engaged in what one Cabinet minister terms "a game of chicken." Callaghan opened the game by directly implying, in an interview on British television, that if the nation's allies insist on stern conditions for the IMF loan, then Britain will have to reduce its contributions to NATO. The country's primary contribution is the maintenance of 55,000 soldiers and airmen in Germany. The government seems to be thinking in terms of a cut of $795 million a year in defense spending, which would mean a reduction in that...
...York City area is proposing widespread linguistic changes in the liturgy. It suggests, among other things, dropping the masculine (and biblical) words Father or King and supplanting them simply with "God"; banning "brotherhood" and "fellowship" in favor of "community," "unity" or "kinship." Says Liturgist Rabbi Chaim Stern of Chappaqua, N.Y., who is not a member of the task force: "I am now persuaded that it is illegitimate to use masculine language about God." It is a significant conversion. As editor of Reform's 1975 prayer book, Stern labored four years on language he now finds objectionable...
...Mozart and discuss nuances of Goethe. An Arab who is mildly sym pathetic to Israel has his car blown apart by terrorists; Israelis confide pro-Palestinian sympathies. The nation, demoralized by the Yom Kippur War, is also torn-and sometimes transfigured-by diversity. Young violinists audition for Isaac Stern ("a death-defying act on four taut strings") while soldiers patrol gardens and political hawks call for takeovers of the West Bank. Israel, Bellow concludes, "is both a garrison state and a cultivated society, both Spartan and Athenian. It tries to do everything, to understand everything, to make provisions for everything...
...Oxford classmate, on his cruising boat, "and watched the death-throes of the suffocating sands under the relentless onset of the sea ... The Dulcibella, hitherto contemptuously inert, began to wake and tremble under the buffetings she received ... Soon her warp tightened and her nose swung slowly round; only her stern bumped now, and that with decreasing force. Suddenly she was free and drifting broadside to the wind till the anchor checked her and she brought up to leeward of it, rocking easily and triumphantly." Riddle's most famous nautical scene involves a desperate 13-mile trip in a dinghy...
Fallows is coasting through the final days of the campaign now. Only a couple of major issues speeches remain, and the speechwriter is only a shadowy presence on the road, more quiet and less stern than most of the Carter staffers. His calm demeanor is a striking contrast to his unsettling memories of the past, of a turbulent war against a war that so forcefully shaped his world outlook. And his politics have mellowed similarly. He has shelved an impressive career in journalism to labor for a candidate whose prospective administration is--like any challenger's--full of question marks...