Word: forfend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Megaphones blared "Dada is all!" A brass band blasted off-key. And, heaven forfend, even the mayor, Emil Landolt, showed up to solemnly read a dada poem: "Switzerland is Dada. /Dada is nothing. /Superfluous mountains keep Switzerland from achieving concrete Dadaism. /Level the mountains...
...President Robert F. Goheen. whose wrought-iron fence was shorter by 30 ft. after the rumpus. Philosophized Governor Hughes: "It's spring, and the sap begins to run." The annual undergraduate sugaring-off rites scorched the ivy elsewhere in the league. At Yale, tipped-off police hoped to forfend a fracas by locking the freshmen inside the Old Campus. But the freshmen broke out, chanting "We want sex, we want sex," as they streaked for a dormitory occupied by women graduate students. The graduate girls peered out the windows and smiled tolerant, grownup smiles. Then the demonstrators headed...
...point is, I take it, that "belief matters in politics." President Kennedy's intense effort in the recent campaign to forfend mistaken visions of tunnels to the Vatican or popes in New York harbours may unfortunately have led people to the opposite erroneous extreme of thinking religion and secular life have no points of contact at all. But the adherent of any religious creed and the set of moral ethics it implies, must naturally strive to express these in his daily life. A believer in the precepts of the Constitution will endeavour to do the same. So the Catholic takes...