Word: attempt
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...dictating how we observe our holidays. It started with the first-year move-in being scheduled on the two days of Rosh Hashanah (or should I say Rosh Hashanah being scheduled on first-year move-in?). The families of Jewish first-years--300 or 400 in all--had to attempt to welcome the Jewish new year in the prescribed manner, while at the same time settling their children into college for the first time. Despite the early and late move in times available to Jewish students, barely any of us managed to spend the holiday in synagogue...
...publicized and still suspect fragment from the Secret Gospel of Mark, may also contain scraps of genuine memory, but lacking complete originals, we have only the shakiest grounds for assessing their reliability. The disappointing fact seems to be that most of the surviving New Testament Apocrypha arose in legitimate attempts to comprehend realities about which the canonical Gospels are mute, and any dogged attempt to read them is apt to leave the reader with one prime reaction--those 2nd and 3rd century Christian editors who decided on the final contents of the New Testament were, above all else, superb literary...
...narrative for which one can begin to claim spiritual, doctrinal or historical authority, but since restrained imagination--as it thinks its way into the lives of others--remains our strongest means of human understanding and compassion, such an expansion seems an honest reaction to the Gospels' limited provisions. My attempt is always to open more and more dark corners of a story to human possibility...
...anything, Savimbi seems to be attempting to expand his diamond operations. This fall he launched a violent push into the diamond-rich northern Cuango Valley that has forced the state mining company to withdraw most of its staff. In recent weeks the Angolan army has claimed successful attacks against UNITA--most notably a powerful strike that destroyed Savimbi's military headquarters at Bailundo. UNITA's attack on the Cuango diamond holdings is seen as a retaliation and a bold attempt to re-establish control over the area that produces Angola's most valuable precious stones...
...longer pays to be innovative and highly successful in marketing one's ideas in America. The nonachievers, well aware of their paucity of brains, attempt to destroy the successful at every turn. PAUL J. FROST Camas, Wash...