Word: abandons
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...Abandon the rule that Harvard and Radcliffe graduates have to wait five years before they can vote in the election...
...explained one Vietnamese last week, "because the monks do not have a just cause now. They did in 1963." Nor have the stage-managed martyrs produced the waves of shock in the U.S. that rolled across the press and public in 1963, generating pressure that persuaded Washington to abandon Diem...
...House would also present the Administration with a number of options to ease present crowding in the Houses. It could abandon Claverly Hall as a dormitory, and simultaneously deconvert a small number of suites in the Houses. Or, if it kept the 120 spaces in Claverly, it could deconvert a far larger number of House suites. No firm decisions have been made, but officials seem to be leaning towards retaining Claverly. "A lot of boys like rooms in Claverly," Dean Monro noted last week...
...intentions to their enemies. This dual delusion, he said, has given the war in Viet Nam "an ideological character similar to the holy wars of former times." In such a conflict, punishment has "particularly little likelihood of success." The notion, he added, that one can "cause people to abandon their ideologies by inflicting pain on them should have died in Rome with the Christian martyrs...
...excess of gerontocracy. Superiors are appointed rather than elected, often are considered ready for authority only at an age when laymen would be considering retirement. "You had to have six strokes to qualify for office," complains one brother. To emphasize their vocation as laymen, some brothers would like to abandon their religious robes; others hold that brothers should now be ordained as priests or deacons to help solve the church's worldwide shortage of clerics. But chastity is not a burning issue-"marriage and monasticism are mutually exclusive," says a Benedictine brother...