Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Decorations. Best organized is the College of Public Affairs, which shifts all students to one of three common areas (economics, history, government) on a "trimester" basis. Each week they must write one paper, be prepared to defend it without warning before other students. Once a week they must also be prepared (from faculty-supplied reading lists, not textbooks) to discuss some general concept, such as the Industrial Revolution. Meanwhile, they pursue their own dreams, from Russian literature to Oriental religion. As one boy puts it cheerfully: "We're trapped. We were just given a three-week vacation, which most...
...Martyr. It was the collection for the Mother Church in Jerusalem that profoundly changed his future. In his letter to the Romans, he said he wanted nothing more than to come to Rome, but the need to defend his ministry to the Gentiles against Jewish-Christian opposition in Jerusalem made it necessary for him to carry the latest collection there himself. When he was visiting the Temple in Jerusalem, some Jews from Ephesus recognized Paul, whom they considered Judaism's arch-subversive, and at once raised an outcry that Paul had desecrated the holy place. A frenzied mob surged...
...Navy has no intention of quitting Guantánamo, and the base can undoubtedly defend itself. The Navy does not expect that. What it does wait for is an attempt to make the base untenable by cutting off the only water supply for 6,800 Navymen and dependents, 2,200,000 gal. piped in daily from a Yateras River pumping station five miles outside base limits. Several times in late 1958. Castro's rebels turned off the water just to make the Americans jump. It can be done again; within a few days, the U.S. Navy would be shipping...
...play's cast and most of the town of Oberammergau (pop. 5,000) rushed to defend the play. On this matter, Christ and Judas agreed. Said blond, bearded Anton Preisiger, 48, who played Christ so movingly ten years ago that he was asked to take the part again this year: "What ugly accusations against a play whose main theme is love!" Echoed Hans Schwaighofer, 40, who plays Judas: "As far as my interpretation of Judas goes, I shall not depict him as a villain but as a man torn between faith and disbelief, tortured by his own conscience...
French Novelist Romain Gary has created a gallery of heroes who are willing to die for liberty but have to settle for the lesser victory of self-knowledge. Whether they enter the lists on the side of justice and liberty (The Colors of the Day) or fanatically defend so unlikely a symbol of freedom as the disappearing elephant (The Roots of Heaven), they wind up knowing that man's nature itself precludes the achievement of worldly grace. A courageous fighter himself (in the French and Free French air forces for eight years). Gary saves his writing from downright pessimism...