Word: religion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rapid rise to political prominence, Berlinguer seldom talks about himself. On the rare occasions when he does, it can be illuminating. Once he admitted that "as a boy, I was always a rebel. I protested-to use a word that's in style now -over everything. Religion, the state, the cliches people used, and social customs. I had read Bakunin and believed myself an anarchist...
...your experience with diversity as a nation of immigrants. This is particularly striking to Japanese, a homogeneous people with a unique language and culture. For generations, the people of America have come from all corners of the earth, including Japan, bringing to your shores differences in language, culture, religion and historical experience. Yet by making common cause of your unflagging pursuit of individual liberty, dignity and fulfillment, you Americans have forged out of your diversity a unity and power unrivaled in the world...
...groups of Moon's foes paraded and picketed with signs like A PROPHET FOR PROFIT, and NO SLAVE LABOR ALLOWED. Among the most vociferous of the demonstrators were parents of his disciples, who for the most part lose contact with their families upon joining Moon's religion...
Each subsequent year's program was headed by a similarly respected name in a particular field (Huston Smith in religion, Daniel Lerner in sociology, Gregory Bateson in anthropology) and followed an itinerary chosen by the leader. The structure of the academic side of the school has remained as Jaeger first conceived it: a theoretical investigation ("Utopias" under Smith, "Change and Modernization" under Lerner, "The Nature and Culture of Man" under Bateson) substantiated by first-hand experience and supplemented by an occasional book and periodic class meetings to tie the whole thing together...
Died. Shlomo Bardin, 77, founder and executive director of the Brandeis Institute, which for 35 years has run a summer retreat near Los Angeles where college-age Jewish youths are taught Hebrew culture and religion; of kidney disease; in Westlake, Calif. Born in the Ukraine, Bardin emigrated in 1919 to Palestine, where he founded a technical high school. At his death he had completed plans for a Jewish prep school on the Brandeis Institute grounds...