This six-voice mass has a serene, transparent mood, and it opens with a philosophical quotation from the Book of Job: "If we have received blessings from the hand of the Lord, why then should we not endure misfortune?"One of the most familiar tunes of all time, from the overture to Rossini's "William Tell", turns up in an unfamiliar form on "Rossini Gala" (Opera Rara ORR 211).
As health care becomes an ever larger share of the economy, we will have no choice but to struggle with the questions of how far we should allow such inequality to extend and what restrictions on our liberty we should endure in the name of fairness.
Does Judge Kavanaugh really mean we should endure the potential damage that president could do to America's interests at home or abroad instead of pursuing a legal process that would determine the president's actual guilt or innocence?
Should we not learn to endure the weather rather than smash it over the net? Television schedulers will be pleased.
"If we will not endure a king as a political power," he said, "we should not endure a king over the production, transportation, and sale of any of the necessaries of life".
"If we will not endure a king as a political power," said John Sherman, the senator who gave his name to America's original antitrust law, "we should not endure a king over the production, transportation and sale of any of the necessaries of life".
"If we will not endure a king as a political power," thundered Ohio's Senator John Sherman, the sponsor of the nation's first antitrust law in 1890, "we should not endure a king over the production, transportation and sale" of what the nation produced.
But neither should we be expected to endure a mind-numbing history lesson.
No. Should we allow them to endure extreme cruelty during their lives just because they're destined for slaughter?
How else can we test what should endure and what should be built to help us all withstand the ensuing tempest?
