Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since then however the Technicians have had nothing to sing about. "Their Day" has not returned and the Crimson booters have continually exploited MIT's good neighbor policy by kicking off season after season on a winning note. Today should be no exception when the two teams tangle at the Business School Field...
...Clothes Line Saga" is an interesting idea that doesn't work very well. A typical day at a rural residence frames a report by a neighbor that "the vice-president's gone mad." Vice president of what we never find out, which is the point. No one shows real interest in the news. Mama sighs "I guess there's nothing we can do about it," and resumes doing her laundry. The song ends nicely with the narrator saying, "and I shut all the doors" but it goes on too long and becomes boring instead of conveying the boredom of rural...
...area nowadays is pretty steep. The local utility has a monopoly on power that's not easy to break. Federal and state environmental laws prohibit construction of all but the cleanest, and therefore the most expensive, projects. And nobody--especially organized residents--wants a noisy power plant as a neighbor. Just to deal with that kind of opposition the company needs big money and a lot of political influence. And Harvard has got just enough of both to drop a $56-million power plant on a city block near the Med School in Boston's Mission Hill...
Thus "Love thy neighbor" and "Honor thy parents" served as brakes on too much antisocial behavior. These commands were absolute and uncompromising in order to balance out the biological bias in the opposite direction. "In Moses' day, as in ours," said Campbell, "honoring one's parents would have been dysfunctional carried to the 100% extreme, but such excesses were so little of a social problem that in the limited list of reiterated commandments, 'Thou shall show independence from thy parents' was usually omitted...
...interpret human history as an upward curve, with God acting with man in a cooperative process of liberating humanity and the world. Sin is anything that resists or undercuts this process, or any oppression of one person-or group-by another. Salvation lies in a commitment to love of neighbor and thus a willingness to fight oppression, with revolution if need be. Camilo Torres, the Colombian guerrilla priest who was shot down by government troops in 1966, is the folk hero of liberation theology...