Philip Glass reads the last line from his opera Satyagraha outside Lincoln Center with OWS protesters and a crowd of opera-goers after the opera let out. Glass starts around 2:45. Worth it.
soothfast, adj. & adv. Of persons: speaking or adhering to the truth; veracious, truthful; true, faithful, loyal. c825. Now archaic.
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- jim 12-02-2011 8:40 pm
soothfast, adj. & adv. Of persons: speaking or adhering to the truth; veracious, truthful; true, faithful, loyal. c825. Now archaic.
- OED (guest) 12-08-2011 5:16 pm [add a comment]
The word: soothfast, was in regular use in English nearly 1100 years before Ghandi's compound term: satyagraha, c1906.
- Occupy English (guest) 12-08-2011 5:28 pm [add a comment] [edit]
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Mahatma
- fakir (guest) 12-08-2011 5:37 pm [add a comment] [edit]