Word: sage
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Western man, it is an event that can be compared only to the Passion and death of Jesus. After a lifetime devoted to the pursuit of truth and virtue, Socrates, at age 70, is put on trial, charged with dishonoring the gods and corrupting the youth of Athens. The sage makes an eloquent plea in self-defense but is nonetheless found guilty and condemned to die. His disciples urge him to escape into exile, but Socrates refuses and carries out the court's decree by drinking a cup of poison hemlock...
...relics and sacred objects, all of which can be profitably offered for sale: Tibetan bells, exotic herbal teas, Viking runes, solar energizers, colored candles for "chromotherapy," and a Himalayan mountain of occult books, pamphlets, instructions and tape recordings. Some of these magical products are quite imaginative. A bearded Colorado sage who calls himself Gurudas sells "gem elixirs," which he creates by putting stones in bowls of water and leaving them in the sun for several hours, claiming that this allows the water to absorb energy from the sun and the stone...
...schools as anachronisms or even convents. Not all are succeeding. A number of small isolated Roman Catholic women's colleges continue to struggle against stagnant enrollments. And over the past two years, Wheaton College in Massachusetts and Goucher in Maryland have abandoned the battle and gone coed. Russell Sage in New York was considering conversion last spring, but after completing a 15-month study of other colleges that had gone coed, administrators decided not to tamper with 71 years of tradition...
...Russell Sage is among the most aggressive and innovative recruiters of female applicants. Among its techniques: assigning every arriving freshman an upper-class "big sister," along with a faculty mentor and a student adviser, and weaving "old-girl networks" to create the same kinds of career opportunities for its graduates that "old boys" have traditionally held out to young men. Russell Sage also puts its seniors in touch with alumnae executives who provide career advice and arrange job contacts...
...have the same potential as last year," Sage said. "Other teams will be after us. Being two-time champion adds another dimension to the way opponents deal with...