Word: religion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many of Hardenburgh's sheep suddenly decide to become shepherds? It was certainly cheap and easy enough-the U.L.C. ordains ministers for $2 down and $2 a month (TIME. Feb. 10, 1975)-but that does not account for the mass ordination. The turn to religion is a protest against the fact that more than a sixth of the town's 84 sq. mi. were already owned by several tax-exempt religious groups (Zen Buddhists, Tibetan monks) and one educational group (the Center for Conservation). That left taxpayers bearing huge burdens to support their local roads and schools...
...coalition), is a strong candidate to become Finance Minister. As his price for joining the coalition, Ariel Sharon would like to become chief of staff, a job now held by Lieut. General Mordecai Gur, a longtime ally of Moshe Dayan. Members of the religious parties will undoubtedly demand the Religion and Education ministries. Other possible Cabinet candidates include M.I.T.-educated Moshe...
Some of the irritants of the occupation are relatively mild. West Bank Arabs must have special blue license plates on their cars, carry special identity cards that list their religion, and notify local police if they remain in Israel overnight. They are singled out for close questioning at the numerous floating roadblocks that Israeli authorities have set up in the West Bank...
...Though steeped in the 19th century, Douglas takes an important part of her text from Richard Hofstadter's Anti-lntellectualism in American Life (1963). In the heavy, bunkered prose of the embattled intellectual, the historian wrote that "to the extent that it becomes accepted in any culture that religion is largely an affair of the heart or of the intuitive qualities of the mind and that the rational mind is irrelevant or worse, so far it will be believed that the rational faculties are barren or perhaps dangerous...
...friends weren't like the rich kid except that they were rich and had gone to prep school. But they had all gone to Audover and Deerfield and Exeter, while the rich kid had at least gone to a Catholic prep school where you had to take religion and the priests frowned on playing squash. So Paco and the rich kid had at least one bond between them, which was that neither of them knew how to play squash but could recite a mean Hail Mary, and the other people were just the other way around. Paco couldn't hack...