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...spoke Korres, spiritual descendant of Phidias, and so ended the council in Athens, most properly as it seemed to all, for it is best to go slowly in matters so weighty. That way one guards against error and shows respect for the past, the future and the protector of men, gray-eyed Athena. -By Kenneth M. Pierce. Reported by Mirka Gondicas/Athens
Often a battered woman has grown up with violence and accepts it as a pitiful form of caring, or at least as something inevitable in a relationship. She may feel desperately that the world is a dangerous place and that she needs a protector, even a man who beats her. Ashamed, terrified that any resistance will provoke greater violence, isolated from her family and friends, often without any means of support other than the husband, many a battered woman sinks into despairing submission, from which the only escape is eventual widowhood, her own murder (or, perhaps in a flash...
...attention to the role of ideology in Soviet military policy--an issue which, though perhaps is outside the work's scope, is impossible to divorce from any discussion of nuclear arms. Holloway, like many American officials, seems undecided on how much of Soviet action derives from its stance as protector of the socialist faith and how much from its role as super-power. In the end, he attributes too much to Merlots-Leninist doctrine and not enough to sheer Machiavellian power...
...that undergraduates believe the institution has its own guardian angel. Hence the school ritual: when a student drives out through the sandstone gates, he taps the roof of his car to summon the angel. When he returns safely to campus, he taps the car roof again to release his protector. Lately that celestial patron has been off campus on a new mission, fund raising. When Tennessee Williams died last month, the University of the South found itself the principal beneficiary of his estate, reported to be $10 million, despite the fact that the playwright had never attended the college...
...think you have to look at the university as a protector of freedoms," she added...