Word: smith
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Every religion," as the great scholar of the world's belief systems, Huston Smith, points out, "mixes universal principles with local peculiarities," and the latter, he goes on, "are not easy for outsiders to comprehend." Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church was more often described as a "cult" before it took over 375 organizations (and Jim Jones' People's Temple is sometimes considered a church that devolved into a cult). As Scientologists do battle with the government in Germany, they could point out that religion apparently comes from the Latin religare, or "to bind"; cult comes from the Latin cultus...
There are essentially two ways of handling this hot stuff. Gingerly--oh, all right, "sensitively"--as writer Ken Hixon and director Pat O'Connor do in Inventing the Abbotts. And raunchily--oh, all right, dirty-mouthed and in your face--as writer-director Kevin Smith does in Chasing Amy. On the whole, Smith's is the better way--funnier, smarter and a lot more truthful about the whole experience of being led around by your...er, base instincts...
According to MacKay-Smith, many more incidents go unreported...
...MacKay-Smith added that the report is one measure of the progress of the Faculty's Coordinating Committee on Sexual Harassment, but that it is better to look at the efforts the Faculty is taking to increase awareness on campus...
...MacKay-Smith said these efforts have "had a major influence...