Word: rejectionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ironically, the policy isn't even seriously applied. It's not as though people are crying in their cubicles at Cabot, rejection letter in hand, because they can never realize their dream of being a History and Science concentrator. "I can't imagine History and Science turning anyone away," says...
While Jesus may have had some ability to use trancelike therapies to "exorcise" demons, Crossan says, he used the incidents themselves chiefly to characterize "Roman imperialism as demonic possession." Both Crossan and Mack say Jesus' ideas are similar to those of the Cynics of the age. These were men who...
More than anything else, it is the image of a deeply resentful human being, as reflected in his writings and speeches, that inspires critics to compare Zhirinovsky to tyrants like Hitler, whose self-pitying laments Zhirinovsky echoes when he writes: "Life itself forced me to suffer from the very day...
But other clerics are not so sanguine; in many ecclesiastical quarters, the angel revival is a cause for some alarm. Ministers see in the literature the makings of a New Age cult, an easy, undemanding religious faith that may also represent a rejection of mainstream church life. "When you don...
This latest spasm has produced what educators call a "teachable moment," when students -- in this case the entire citizenry -- may be ready to learn a new lesson about an old problem. Among activists who for years have fought for tighter gun laws, the current wave of terror presents a perfect...