Word: offered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...letter points out that several major universities offer a variety of courses on Hispanic history and culture. "Yale University offers courses on Chicano history and poetry, a top Hispanic poet is a full faculty member at Wellesley college, and Notre Dame has a Center for Chicano Studies," the letter sates...
...their attitudes toward elitism, anarchy, capitalism, socialism and their feelings about sex, authority and death. More than 200 of the letters-including one written on a scrap of cardboard from a milk carton-were found last week in a box on the porch of his cabin at Jonestown. They offer moving insights into the adherents' obsessive loyalty to their leader, whom they addressed as "Dad, "and reveal minds bent upon self-abasement and sometimes self-destruction. The excerpts that follow use the spelling and punctuation of the original letters...
...temple's strong advocates within the Guyanese government was Viola Burnham, the Prime Minister's wife. According to diplomats in Georgetown, Guyanese officials seemed to find it was in their best interest politically to offer assistance to the cult and even contribute financially. Medicine, building materials, U.S. currency and guns were imported for the commune with little interference from local customs officials...
...Would you like to know what the meaning of life is?" That is an offer hard to refuse, especially when it is made by bright-eyed, neatly dressed youths who radiate assurance and confidence. Such a street scene has become a frequent occurrence in cities across the U.S. as swarms of cults-some new, some old, some familiar, some obscure-try to recruit new members. They know that in rootless, permissive, mobile America, many people are desperately searching for meaning and stability in their lives...
...Declines Offer...