Word: propound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stripped-down flat, a cell of Maoist incendiaries gather to plan the decline and fall of practically everybody. The short-wave radio blares a ceaseless stream of news from Radio Peking; quotes from the Chairman are read with the stentorian zeal of the newly converted; lectures propound dialectical doublethink ("A revolutionary party carries out a policy whenever it takes an action. If it's not a correct policy, it's a wrong...
...humbly suggest to all who ponder the relevancy of the church in a modern setting that we stop talking so much, be quiet and think and pray. Sometimes, it seems to me, our theologians and intellectuals confound the very ideas they wish to propound by indulging in so much pompous, convoluted verbosity. The rest of us-the prosaic mass-have traditionally looked to our founding fathers and religious leaders to help us articulate that which we so inadequately proclaim. I, for one, am not confused by God, or the church, or my place in a secular world. I am confused...
...indeed a thank-less job. He must watch out for his university's relations with a board of regents, a legislature, an alumni association, and a whole state's population--none of which is likely to set much store by the ideas "those crazy college kids" are prone to propound. But in his concern with all these, he has lost sight of his first responsibility, which is the education of the young. And the young are a troublesome, feisty lot. They will explore the frontiers of knowledge, and sometimes venture far beyond, instead of being content to be indoctrinated with...
...attacks, strove to keep awake and alive by scribbling notes on scraps of paper in an attempt to rewrite the confiscated manuscript of his book. The Doctor and the Soul. "Only after my theory had undergone the acid test of the concentration camp did I feel it legitimate to propound an approach which constituted such a blow into the prevalent nihilism and fatalism. Meaning orientation keeps men alive under the worst circumstances. Only those were apt to survive who had meaning orientation...
...conscience-pricked judge advocate keeps suggesting that Wirz had a moral obligation to disobey such monstrous military orders-a ticklish thesis to propound before a military court. But after Wirz insists on taking the stand, the judge advocate wrests permission to raise the moral issue. The trial thereupon erupts into something beyond cross-examination or even debate. It becomes an indictment, on the judge advocate's part, that bypasses the law, and a hysterical mine-not-to-reason-why defense on Wirz's part that circumvents morality. Wirz, most likely a preordained scapegoat, was convicted and hanged...