Word: bags
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...report also advocates "a small number of well-staffed programs" organized, as current programs are, around "shops"- which Sizer describes as "a small group of faculty and students with its own general area and direction of inquiry, its own office space, and its own coffee pot and bag lunches...
Separatist Saints. The Mayflower company was, to begin with, no homogenous assembly of pious churchmen, but a mixed bag of cantankerous "saints and strangers"-angry religious rebels and ungodly adventurers who took unseemly pleasure in hurling invective at one another. The "saints" were bona fide revolutionaries-reformers within a Reformation. The Anglican Church under the Stuarts, with its emphasis on bishops and mandated ritual, was for them hardly more pure or godly than the "whore of Rome," as they called the Roman Catholic Church. The Bible should be the only authority, the reformers felt. Some also believed that each congregation...
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...badge is enough." In Detroit last month in front of the headquarters of a group associated with the Black Panthers, one black patrolman, Glenn Edward Smith, was killed in a shootout, and another, Marshall Emerson, caught a bullet fragment in one hand. "Black people put us all in one bag now," says Emerson. "I'm not out there to be an oppressor, but to the community I'm just a pig." Chicago's Octave Richard insists that some blacks "are against authority and against the police department, but I don't think they are against black...
...effectiveness, too, was Cushing's broad, transparent humanity, which seemed to embrace not only every faith but even, on occasion, rather conflicting ideologies. "He had a good word to say for everyone who came down the pike," explained an admirer in discussing Cushing's mixed bag of enthusiasms. He was an early, lifelong member of the N.A.A.C.P., and the first Catholic prelate to urge his flock to attend Billy Graham's crusades. He could also praise the anti-Communism of the John Birch Society and write a glowing foreword to a book by the director...