Word: calling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...male cult member was forced to have intercourse with a man she disliked, while the entire colony watched. One means of indoctrinating children: electrodes were attached to their arms and legs, and they were told to smile at the mention of their leader's name. Everyone was ordered to call Jones "Father...
...accurate report of what had happened for nearly two days. But one survivor, Stanley Clayton, 25, reported that there may have been more coercion and fear than loyal devotion when the final test came. Clayton was cooking black-eyed peas in the colony's kitchen when the call to assemble was sounded. He recalled: "A security guard came into the kitchen, pointed a pistol at everybody and told us all to go to the pavilion." Jones had already ordered that preparations for mass suicide be started. But one woman, Christine Miller, was protesting. Continued Clayton: "She was telling Jones...
...year-old Kriistina Wegelius, in Boston this week for her first appearance in Eliot House's Jimmy Fund benefit, An Evening With Champions. Since she left her home in Helsinki, Finland three years ago to begin intensive training in Denver, Colo, Tintti, as her friends call her, has lived the life of an ice skating addict...
Ourselves and Our Children gives us a feminist view of the family much closer to the real world of single parents and female breadwinners than the traditional preconceptions. If this feminism seems to be merely a misnamed humanism, perhaps so; but the fact that we can now call feminism humanism might be the greatest testimony to the real achievements of the feminist movement...
...water drum. This is a religion of the earth, and the ceremony involved humbling me to all living things. The fire, the smoke, the peyote, are all seen as means of putting the body and the prayer out into the elements. The purpose of this ceremony was to call upon the forces of nature to give me strength and wisdom to come back...