Word: paganization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land...
Tiant gave up eight hits, struck out three and issued no walks. The four Yankee pitchers--Ellis, Martinez, Dave Pagan, and Dick Tidrow--struck out four Red Sox and gave up six walks...
...BRIAN M. PAGAN...
Macabre Contest. As Author Pagan points out, looting the past was nothing new in Egypt. Grave robbers went to work shortly after the first pharaoh was laid to rest. The ancient Egyptian tombs were treasure-houses of gold, jewelry, furniture and other artifacts thought to be needed in the afterlife. The poor, who could scarcely get through their present life, took a skeptical view of such hoarding and helped themselves. The security of buried pharaohs became a macabre contest. As grave robbers prepared to descend on a site, loyal priests who had set guards on the mummies would rush...
Many of our contemporary educational problems and controversies can be understood as part of a persisting American ideological commitment to success-to a firm belief in its possibility, to a desire for proof of its achievement, here and now. Even Cotton Mather, no pagan hedonist or crass materialist or psychologically "oriented" suburbanite, wanted his children to prosper-and saw in such a fate for them a realization of himself. Today many of us fight for our children as if it were heaven itself we have in mind as we roll up our sleeves or bare our teeth. If public schools...