Word: consistence
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Time Religion" [Dec. 7] will have to wait for our grandchildren. As existing religions gained their momentum in an age of ignorance, they still flourish in an age of misinformation. We live in our own little worlds of delusion, content with our processes of reasoning, which only consist of finding arguments for believing our own notions of truth. Huxley's New-Time Religion offers no heavenly crown, or elated promises of a glorious hereafter. His is but a religion of the real world, a religion where the individual would be free from the spiritual bondage of ignorance, fear...
...spectators are an extremely knowledgeable and convivial lot. Soccer at the pre-college level is confined almost entirely to the Eastern prep schools, and most rosters are studded with athletes from Andover, Exeter, Deerfield, and the rest. Thus, a soccer crowd is likely to consist of people who share this "preppy" orientation. Also, since soccer fans, once committed, are passionately loyal to the game, those in attendance usually understand every rule and nuance. Programs were a luxury the team could not afford this year, but, after the season's first encounter, everyone was thoroughly acquainted with the lineup...
...Faculty has submitted a list of 75 students, nominated by the Senior Tutors and Department heads, to serve on an advisory group on educational policy. This committee, under the auspices of the Student Council, will consist of undergraduates with different career plans, fields of concentration, and group rankings...
...exchange projects between the United States and the Soviet Union consist of one shot, one month visits. Under the Lacey-Zaroubin agreement between the two countries, Russian and American university students exchange entire academic years; last year, 22 Americans spent nine months studying at Soviet universities, and 17 Russians were enrolled at American institutions...
Time for Anti-Thaw. Fact is, as Peking well knows, that the U.S. has no bases in Laos and U.S. "troops" there consist of 70 men supervising the supply of light World War II U.S. weapons to the royal Laotian army, plus 100 army officers on inactive duty assigned to a French military training mission...