Word: religion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...descent into this wretched condition picked up noticeably some 20 years ago here in America. Around that time, hedonists and idealists converged as flower children and whined about giving peace a chance. When John Lennon imagined a world in which there was "nothing to kill or die for, no religion too," etc., this descent was, as modern political scientists say, "institutionalized...
Joseph begins his article by complaining that campus activists need "to regain popularity and inspire enthusiasm" by achieving "some tangible success on campus." Finals clubs, he reasons, "would serve as excellent targets for agitation" because they "exclude students because of gender and, more often than not, race, religion and lack of athletic ability...
...himself. "He never relaxes, and we never go on vacations," she says in an interesting reference. "Hell to Dennis would be a day on the beach at Acapulco." They have two teenage daughters who know a little about neglect. "If a crew member will put this ahead of his religion," Conner says, "his family, his girlfriend, his home, his career, then I'll give him a tryout...
...podium, he preaches that the authors of the Constitution intended the U.S. to be governed as a Christian republic "under the law of God." As he explained to a rapt gathering of 800 in Anchorage two weeks ago, "The Founding Fathers wanted to separate church and state but not religion and state, and not God and state...
Harvard students are dangerously passive to the existence of institutions on campus which exclude students because of gender and, more often than not, race, religion and lack of athletic ability. Working against this passivity could do much to improve the quality of life on campus and, at the same time, return activism to the level of prestige it once enjoyed among students...