Word: recurring
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Meeting with Venezuela's bishops that evening, John Paul issued decisive marching orders. He called upon the region's hierarchy to correct errant Catholic thinkers "with charity and firmness." Too many theologians, said the Pope, "proclaim not the truth of Christ but their own theories," a theme that may recur during the current journey. By the end of his 18,500- mile trip, John Paul will have flown from Venezuela to Ecuador to Peru to Trinidad and Tobago, delivered 44 other speeches, lunched with steelworkers, met upcountry Indians and visited a sector of Peru rife with Maoist guerrillas...
Finally, I cannot resist a word in defense of the dirty-minded men of Pi Eta. Once made public, their words and thoughts must be condemned. But does anyone doubt that such thoughts will recur in young male minds? (And--equity demands--that complementary thoughts may occur in young female minds?) It is desirable to try to make all who think such thoughts feel guilt, a dangerous emotion? Surely, no one proposes action to prevent students from privately discussing such things? Did not the real fault in that incident lie with those who, stumbling accidently on what was clearly...
...ideas of dislocation in time and isolation in society recur throughout the book. The first story, "Everybody watching and the time passing Like That." Pivots around the moment suspended in time, when the drama teacher is told of James Dean's death. For a sixteen-year-old working for the summer in a historically reconstructed fort. "It is always the summer of 1816." The fraternity housemother spends her life surrounded by young men of unvarying...
...against malaria and the insect that carries it, the female Anopheles mosquito. Peruvian Indians discovered the first important weapon: the bark of the Cinchona tree. For centuries the bark and its derivative, quinine, were the only means of preventing and treating malaria's waves of fever, which can recur erratically and weaken victims for years. Gin and tonic, originally made with quinine, is said to have been developed by British colonialists as a way of making their daily doses more palatable...
They developed clan loyalties like those of Highland Scotland, complete with tales of heroism and treachery. The legacy of the Crusades even now is reflected in the snipings, kidnapings and crossfire that recur in the mountains between Christian and Muslim militias. Part of this legacy is a penchant for violence, a belief that the gun as much as the cross is a source of salvation. Says Professor Majid Fakhri of the American University of Beirut: "There is something very medieval about the Christian outlook. A type of feudalism exists in which politics and religion are intertwined in a literal...