Word: pagans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conference originated as a response to "a lack of activity among Third World groups at the College and a lack of concern from College administrators for minority issues," said John M. Pagan '83, following the conference...
...Part II (played with acute perceptivity by Gerry Bamman) defines himself by what he does and not by what he is. And what he does is always tainted by easy accommodation and the habit of incessant compromise. He moves from trading slaves out of Charleston, S.C., and shipping pagan idols to China to reigning as a prophet in the Moroccan desert, finally ending up crowned "the Emperor of Self in a Cairo mad house, with a wreath of straw...
...long the county has been dry, but, rather, whether it's ever been dry." One must call upon a distant memory to catch the root of this observance, and that would be the memory of one's response to a parental order to cease a pleasant but pagan dalliance. The result is defiance, brashly executed...
...Michael Pagan, an unemployed laborer, sparked a national furor 6½ months ago when he wandered into Queen Elizabeth II's Buckingham Palace bedroom for an early-morning chat. After several court appearances, he was sent to a maximum-security hospital for psychiatric treatment. Pagan was freed last week by a mental health review tribunal on the grounds that he no longer posed a danger to others. Many Britons thought otherwise. Conservative Member of Parliament Sheila Faith had one word for the decision: "incomprehensible...
...fear of, evil spirits; yet they also plumb the animist religions for concepts of eternal life or of a remote "high god" or primordial creator that might be used to inspire belief in the one God of the Bible. After all, the missionaries point out, Christmas was originally a pagan rite that ancient preachers turned to good advantage...