Word: preceptors
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With the exception of Cuba, no Communist Party in Central or South America holds power, but all are well prepared to manipulate perpetual popular discontent. Castro's Cuba is the prototype, the precedent, and to a large extent the preceptor of incipient Communist revolutions in the hemisphere. Since 1960, Castro has trained guerrillas from most Latin countries, including Colombia, Haiti, Venezuela and the Dominican Republic. Propaganda and arms are readily available to potential revolutionaries throughout Latin America. Yet the only country where an operational subversive movement has really taken hold is Venezuela. As a result, Communist activists in Latin...
...There is a moral crisis on this and many other campuses. Much painful and complicated soul searching is going on. If the Chief of the Harvard Psychiatric Service had sufficient command of contemporary philosophy, sufficient understanding of the Freudianism he popularizes so crudely, he might serve as a legitimate preceptor for this community. Instead he spouts mindless cliches, offers frightened and frightening prescriptions, and debases an issue which is far more profound and serious than the good doctor, I fear, will ever realize...
When Prime Minister Nehru broke with the conservatives in 1951, Shastri abandoned one preceptor, Tandon, to join the other, Pandit Pant, in supporting Nehru. From that moment Lal Bahadur Shastri never left Nehru's side, and the grateful Prime Minister repaid the loyalty with a succession of Cabinet jobs...
James relaxed too much. In making little allowance for the fact that people can also be converted to vicious creeds, he acquired admirers he would have deplored Mussolini, for instance, hailed James as a preceptor who had showed him that "an action should be judged by its result rather than by its doctrinary basis...
Before joining the Princeton faculty in 1960 as an assistant professor and preceptor in Philosophy, Murdoch taught for three years at Harvard. He is a member of the Council of the History of Science Society...