Word: exhortion
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...unpredictable. Watkins Glen went like clockwork. It even rained on time. Because of the precision, there could be no spirit of Watkins Glen. Yet in the midst of the crush at the stage of Suffolk Downs last week, one young girl stood on her friend's shoulders to exhort the crowd...
...today and said the things he used to say, he would make the Italians laugh." However, added Almirante, "if he were alive today, he would be a postFascist like me, and he would say different things. Everything has changed. Do you want me to appear on the balcony and exhort the country to go to war? That's laughable now. But I do not spit on that past. I am not ashamed of having lost the war. I did my duty, as so many...
Women should be revolting, Liberator Germaine Greer told an audience at Montreal's McGill University. But their revolt should be nonviolent: "I would never presume to exhort the small band of really dedicated women who are prepared to die to go into the streets and be killed, because we need them to work among their sisters." The Germaine strategy for women is rather "to refuse to support the consumer-based economy-to stop buying or cut way back in their spending...
Written in the second person, most of the principles are didactic aphorisms which exhort the reader to hard work, self-denial and service to society. "Be firm! Be strong! Be a man! And then... be an angel!" counsels principle number...
...Stanford itself, a new set of rules for faculty self-regulation is under consideration. It lays out carefully fashioned guidelines for disciplinary action and provides that "no faculty member shall prevent, or directly exhort or incite anyone" to interfere with another "performing his duties within the university." Although the new rules would not retroactively affect the handling of Franklin's case, their spirit is likely to. Franklin sees his suspension and possible firing as part of "the wave of political repression, the new McCarthyism, now sweeping the campuses of the empire." But in fact his case squarely presents...