Word: attained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the university will listen to "anyone who is himself willing to listen," but that "coercion must be rejected as a substitute for persuasion." A student's views on campus matters, he said, "should be primarily motivated by what is best for Yale, not what will help him attain some other personal, political or ideological objective." At his installation as the new president of Brandeis, Morris Abram declared that "the right of students, faculty or anyone else to disrupt the learning process is no right at all. It is wrong. I reject the modern paeans to violence...
...dignity of the old athlete and the old con -he had taken punishment, he knew the detailed schedule of pain in a real loss, there was an attentiveness in his eyes which gave offer of some knowledge of the abyss, even the kind of gentleness which ex-drunkards attain after years...
...perhaps you can, if only for a moment, attain to the radically transformed, profound and transcendent state of consciousness of "Within You Without...
...role in achieving a reconciliation within its flock. But the truth is that the Latin American Catholic church has almost always been identified with the privileged powers, from the days when its priests went ashore with the conquistadors. As a result, there is widespread doubt that it can ever attain the status of a reunifying social force...
...began when white missionaries undercut the tribal status system by proselytizing its lowliest members, such as women, children and assorted outcasts. As elders lost prestige, the young flocked to cities; severed from tribal morals yet longing for them, some sank into alcoholism, prostitution and petty crime in order to attain Western luxuries. Most were victims of "alienation"?also a Western luxury of sorts...