Word: druids
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William Arrowsmith once lamented that precious few rewards exist at research universities for good teaching. “Universities are as uncongenial to teaching as the Mojave Desert to a clutch of Druid priests. If you want to restore a Druid priesthood, you cannot do it by offering prizes for Druid-of-the-Year. If you want Druids, you must grow forests.” We all know that it takes decades to grow a forest, and no institution can afford to wait decades to create an environment in which great courses will spontaneously emerge and good teaching will thrive...
...sermons, the U.S. clergy held with firmness to traditional Christian (and Jewish and Mohammedan) principles on this point. The news from Elugelab did not set off a wave of pacifist sentimentality. A passage in a sermon by Dr. Louie De Votie Newton, pastor of Atlanta's Druid Hills Baptist Church, was typical of the main strain of comment on the H-bomb. Said Dr. Newton...
...hitting nothing but bogeys these days. First there were the troubles at Augusta National, home of the Masters tournament, where chairman Hootie Johnson gave a bulldog's performance to keep a woman from joining his all-male club last year. Now another exclusive Peach State club, Atlanta's Druid Hills Golf Club, is facing pressure on the gay-rights front in a dispute that has pitted the city's country-club elite against the Atlanta political establishment...
...have to provide them to unmarried heterosexual couples as well, which it won't do. The city has vowed to enforce an ordinance passed in 2000 requiring that an institution with at least 50 members provide same-sex benefits if it rents the space out for public functions, as Druid Hills does. A group of Republican state legislators plan to introduce a bill this week that would protect the club against the city's ordinance, on the premise that state law sanctions marriage only between a man and a woman...
When her husband came home with yet another shrink-wrapped computer game 18 months ago, Denise Dituri never suspected it would transform her into Lorelahna, the Druid of Dark Fury. This Sacramento, Calif., radio-station manager and mother of three had never been much of a fantasy buff. Dungeons and Dragons did not appeal. Lord of the Rings was just O.K. But somehow this game, EverQuest, was different. Soon Denise was playing 18 hours a week--and, paradoxically, spending more time with her family than ever. "The longest conversation in our house at dinner," she says, "is about what...