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...only half-right. Religion is not always and everywhere or merely an opiate of the masses. Though it often serves as a "sedative administered without consent," religion is also sometimes the only way a defeated culture can preserve its history. An oppressed people's religion becomes a way to stave off extinction and absorption. Through ritual and symbol, collective remembrance and testimony, it endures as a sanctuary for the impulse and energies of liberation. In times of social revolution, in Mexico, for example, a Mass may emerge, in Cox's description, as a concrete instance of the "radicalizing of false...
However, Francis H. Duehay '55, dean of admissions and studies at the School of Education, was declared last Sunday the ninth-place finisher in the city council election to stave off what looked like an imminent Independent landslide...
...rebel forces had been able to move to within ten miles of the capital of Phnom-Penh prior to the deadline. Those sweeping advances suggested that the troops of Cambodian President Lon Nol, once they were denied the support of U.S. warplanes, would be hard-pressed to stave off a major enemy attack...
...avert a civil war," Allende defiantly declared last week, "but in Chile there will be neither a coup nor a civil war." The tragic prospect is that while the harassed and embattled President may succeed in averting a military coup, he may soon be powerless to govern or to stave off overt civil...
...opinion, there is danger in the magical notion that sex can solve personal and social problems. Some youngsters away from home for the first time imagine that sex can relieve their longing for the closeness of family life. Others, dismayed by the failings of society, use sex to stave off their "terrific fear of disintegration...