Word: peculiarities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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About 15 coalition representatives will attend the meeting this evening, the first face-to-face talk with an administrator since the coalition issued its demands in the flyer titled "Peculiar Institution," a little over a week...
...surface a religious core, some older binding energy of belief or superstition, previous to civic consciousness, previous almost to thought. Here is the paradox of God-love as a life-force, the deepest well of compassion, that is capable of transforming itself into a death-force, with the peculiar annihilating energies of belief. Faith, the sweetest refuge and consolation, may harden, by perverse miracle, into a sword -- or anyway into a club or a torch or an assault rifle. Religious hatreds tend to be merciless and absolute. The mystery is now on view among the Hindus and Muslims of India...
Spurned by the lack of minority representation on last Friday's Junior Parents' Weekend panel at the Science Center, the coalition protested outside and enumerated five demands in a flyer, titled "The Peculiar Institution...
...coalition members say they want to continue mobilizing as a coalition even if they do resolve their concerns with the "Peculiar Institution...
Mansfield's remarks have provoked a wave of controversy in the past month and constituted one grievance listed in a flyer titled "The Peculiar Institution," distributed last week by a coalition of nine minority groups...