Word: thou
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Worth a few thou--nothing too fancy...
...like there's an EleventhCommandment--'Thou shalt not criticize MichaelDukakis,'" he complained
...last Saturday at Neve Shalom, the ancient city's largest synagogue. A little more than an hour into prayers in the temple's cool, newly white-washed interior, the reader began reciting the verses of Deuteronomy 16. Among the lines is the well-known biblical injunction "Justice, justice shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live...
...whom Bradley studies the way coaches watch game films. Still, some of Bradley's colleagues find him aloof. "Reciprocity is not the way he operates," insists one Democratic Senator. "He's viewed as a lot of taking and not much giving. It's not that he's holier than thou, it's just that he has his own personal agenda." Says Bradley's media adviser, Michael Kaye: "He's everyone's friend but nobody's friend. He's so concerned about what he wants to accomplish that he hasn't joined the club...
...contrary, moral imperatives are usually highly practical. "Thou shalt not kill" seems to me to be a pretty practical way of keeping human society together. Similarly, "Thou shalt honor thy father and thy mother" appears to be a good practical means of sustaining communities. That separating Harvard from supporting an evil regime and benefiting from tyranny also may happen to make the ending of that regime easier does not really surprise...