Word: rising
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...religion," says Robert J.L. Burrows, publications editor of the evangelical Spiritual Counterfeits Project in Berkeley. "Humans are essentially religious creatures, and they don't rest until they have some sort of answer to the fundamental questions. Rationalism and secularism don't answer those questions. But you can see the rise of the New Age as a barometer of the disintegration of American culture. Dostoyevsky said anything is permissible if there is no God. But anything is also permissible if everything is God. There is no way of making any distinction between good and evil...
Sweetser, who began swimming at the age of eight, has been a major factor in the Harvard women's swimming team's rise from joke of the Ivy League to powerhouse of the Eastern seaboard...
...ever seen All About Eve, or even A Star is Born, then you already know the plot of Anna: aging actress takes fledgling actress under her wing: fledgling's subsequent rise parallels her mentor's fall...
...herself. Kirkland's performance shows the twin tragedies of Anna's considerable talent gone to waste and Anna's dissolution from dignity to near madness. Anna is a showpiece for Kirkland, one that, counter to the film's own premise, should set this deserving older actress' star on the rise...
Taking Stock: Paul Baverstock is on the rise in the late season. The sophomore midfielder broke open the three-way tie for second place on the Crimson scoring list with a pair of tallies against Adelphi. Baverstock now has seven goals and three assists for 17 points, three of them coming in Harvard's last three games...