Word: fortress
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...operations of this cult. Each of the flower-vendor members can earn well over a thousand dollars a week. As well, the young members milk their parents for money all the time. Mr. Selover is correct when he writes that the Unification Church will not adopt a fortress mentality but will instead work within the system--for it is only in the American system that such an ignominious association could operate. The Moonies feed on capitalism and prey on its confused population. It is no act of rebellion to join, or be corrupted into joining, the Unification Church. Rev. Moon...
...perceptions a) by "moonies" of the institutions of the wider society as fundamentally hostile and b) by others of moonies as social outcasts, or worse. This kind of clash is rather the rule in the establishment of new religious movements and thus persecution necessarily leads to retreat into a "fortress mentality." In the case of Rev. Moon--just the opposite...
...accusers and then turned to greet the press and spectators. After the proceedings, he addressed a rally of 2500 Church members and friends outside, stating his respect for America and trust in judicial due process. The attitude expressed by Rev. Moon himself runs counter to the formation of fortress mentality and may instead become a paradigm for working within the system as the future mode of the Unification religious community...
...back to the main point: let's get off this self-pity kick on the end of the MX and look elsewhere in that funny five-sided fortress for our laughs...
...nice house gives a man self-respect and confidence." A house of one's own is refuge, a tangible, physical thing that implies stability in a democracy all liquid and stormily insecure. American history has sometimes been a wild ride: a house traditionally served as the private fortress in which to recover, in which to repel night prowlers and dangerous social change...