Word: bulwarking
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...Dean Jerald Brauer of the Uni versity of Chicago Divinity School analyzes the conflict, the council's sincere critics "do not think that the churches have the responsibility, not to say the right, to employ the Gospel as a critique as well as a bulwark of American society. The very fact that the council is under attack is fairly good evidence that it is seeking to fulfill the role it ought to play in American society." The council proposes, in any case, to amplify the role. The General Board last week gave its approval to a number...
...there is nothing blunt, pornographic or unnecessarily explicit about the love affairs Macaque describes. He sounds a full symphony of sensuality with overtones, grace notes and rests that are as important as the main theme. Bodily love, in the Macaque-Cloete view, is not pleasure alone but the staunchest bulwark against death and despair, a link to nature in a civilization perilously cut loose from its antecedents. "With enough beds," says Macaque, "there might be no battlefields...
Besides providing a substantial bulwark against specialization, this rule would help attain a related goal of the Doty Committee's with which we strongly agree; namely undergraduates need one hard, lab science. In the baldest terms, because of the explosion of scientific knowledge and its immeasurable effect on contemporary life, makes sense for the student to have, at the very least an acquaintance with the methods of laboratory sciences...
...Engineers' offensive punch is provided by inside right Mohar Chikhaoul and center forward Ed Roberts, who scored both goals against W.P.I. Bulwark of the defense is fullback Savit Bhotiwihok, who won honorable mention in the All-New England ratings last year...
...accepting not so much the disgrace of political separation, since Germany has been a nation for only 75 years in her long lifetime, but rather the pain of a sharp cultural rupture. "There we are," Leonhardt concludes, "saddled again with a mission and not at all sure which one. Bulwark against the east? Bulwark against Leipzig and Dresden [both East German cities]? If it were a question of industry, thoroughness, organizing talent, we would have nothing to fear. But I am afraid the world is going to ask of us just what we have least of: the imagination to understand...