Word: dares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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American Catholic academics and liberals have protested against the treatment of Curran, who may find himself shut out from other Catholic institutions as well; it is likely that none will dare give him a teaching job now. Curran says his own plight will create a general "chilling factor, at minimum. Certainly people are going to have to think twice about what they might write." Francis Fiorenza, a colleague of Curran's at Catholic University, predicts that despite efforts at dissuasion by U.S. educators, the Vatican will issue controversial new rules requiring that theology teachers on all Catholic campuses be approved...
...PROBLEM with being a non-conformist is that if you are successful at it, everyone wants to imitate you. If you dare to drop out, do it quietly; otherwise the entire art-world will come toppling after you like lemmings...
Like Herman, I was hooked. I loved the open green space, the quiet, and especially--dare I say it--the athletic challenge...
BELIEVE IT OR NOT, there are some existential tortures that I missed as a freshman: lottery hell, work-study hell, extracurricular hell. Next party you're at, pull some wise senior aside and get him or her to talk about it, if they dare. Otherwise, repeat your mantra, rub your lucky rabbit's foot, and keep a crucifix handy, and you probably will sail through freshman year unscathed. If not, don't say I didn't warn...
...more comprehensive programs is DARE, for Drug Abuse Resistance Education, begun in Los Angeles three years ago and since copied by 62 school districts around the country. Police officers meet for 45 minutes to an hour with teachers and classes in elementary and junior high schools for 17 lessons stretching through a semester. Many lessons have little to do directly with drugs; they concentrate on such ideas as ego and self-esteem. Though they might seem cloudy concepts for sixth-graders, the officers try to make them fun by using balloons and role-playing games...