Word: vanguardism
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...accounts of missionary work with graphic narratives of the blood sacrifices and propiatiations of pagan idols in which he eagerly participated. While his sisters encourage him to celebrate Mass, he flings himself into a tribal rain dance with gay abandon. The man whom the village heralded as the vanguard of godliness turns out to have been a gin-addled apostate...
...think I'm pretty mainstream," he added. "The only reason you'd have to worry is if I were trying to act as some kind of vanguard for off-campus students...
These new clinics are the second phase of WHI, which has already opened 16 "Vanguard Clinical Centers," including one at Brigham and Women's Hospital, one of Harvard's teaching hospitals...
...have had a very phenomenal response from women in the Boston and New England area," said Kate L. Kalan, clinic manager of the Vanguard Center at Brigham and Women's. "[We received] several thousand phone calls in the first few days of recruitment...
...institution in business for 2,000 years is bound to be condescending ( about passing fads. Rome's attitude alternates between suggesting that concern about these issues (birth control, women's rights) is an ephemeral ideological trend and implying that such concern represents the vanguard of forces infinitely darker. Both reactions are wrong, I think...