Word: role
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There are abiding feuds among the coastal villages as to each one's role on Dday. Courseulles-sur-Mer claims that it, not Graye-sur-Mer, is the spot where George VI and Winston Churchill stepped ashore; the two villages are barely 50 meters apart. Sainte-Mère-Eglise and Bénouville, both in drop zones for Allied paratroops, are still haggling over which was liberated first (Bénouville was). To the thousands of tourists -mostly French-who come every year, the claims and counterclaims make little difference. They come and they look, silently, respectfully, moved...
Such mixing of the sexes is evidence that colleges are more than willing to stop playing the role of puritanical parental surrogates. At Antioch College in Ohio, where all but three dorms are coed, Associate Dean Jean Janis explains why: "The more responsibility you give students, the more they are able to assume." The trend disturbs some parents, especially those with daughters. Yet most school officials maintain that coeducational living does not lead to increased sexual activity. According to Stanford Psychologist Joseph Katz, an incest taboo develops in coed dorms as a result of a brother-sister relationship between...
...chaplaincy is that a minister serving the armed forces is forced to compromise his right to be a religious prophet, to speak out against the sins of the times, including morally questionable wars. Army Field Manual 16-5 makes it clear that the Army sees the chaplain's role as a military support mission: to "supplement and reinforce the total instruction of the troops in the Code of Conduct by his spiritual and moral leadership and his personal presence during combat and combat training." And as an officer, the chaplain is legally obliged to defend national policy...
Living in the Protestant Bible Belt both delighted and challenged her. "To be great storytellers," she said, "we need something to measure ourselves against. It takes a story to make a story. It takes a story of mythic dimensions. In the Protestant South, the Scriptures fill this role." She asserts her Catholicism with a most graceful catholicity. "The writer should never be ashamed of staring," she wrote. "When the Catholic novelist closes his own eyes and tries to see with the eyes of the Church, the result is another addition to that large body of pious trash for which...
Riley's performance, backed by eight previous flight assignments with Haney, proved to be as smooth as the Apollo liftoff. His visible calm, however, belied the subsurface disputes that have been shaking NASA for the past few months. Until his angry departure last month, Haney, in his role as NASA's public affairs officer, was the man caught in the middle. On one side were the engineers and astronauts, who were determined to maintain as much privacy as possible during the flights. On the other was the press, equally determined to know all about the space shots...