Word: virgination
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gives his approval of this abomination. Thus morally undermined, the bear cult deteriorates until enemies threaten Bekla. The bear Shardik is wounded, escapes to the countryside, kills an evil slave trader, then dies himself. After some hideous adventures, Kelderek atones for his misrule, marries a beautiful but slightly soiled virgin priestess, and sets up a community to care for former slave children...
Adolescent Bluff. The central figure of the Ortelgan religion is Shardik, a giant bear god. Though only a caste of virgin priestesses preserves this memory, Shardik actually lived as a real bear during the time of Ortelga's supremacy. When Adams' story begins, a great bear appears, driven to the edge of the River Telthearna by a forest fire. Confused and maddened, he stops, rises awesomely on his hind legs, standing more than twice as tall as a man, and beats at the flames. Burned and half-conscious, he is driven into the river, across which he drifts...
...what beautiful paintings we have. People used to get depressed or angry and take it out on their homes. Now they take better care of them." In the Maravilla district of town, Artist David Lopez and Psychologist Sam Cepeda joined with the Arizona Gang to work on a Virgin of Guadalupe mural. After the painting was completed, gang members took a more proprietary interest in the neighborhood, and vandalism dropped sharply. "I could never get the Arizona boys to talk before," says Cepeda. "But," he adds, in typical professional jargon, "once they work on a mural, they verbalize a problem...
...Seminary from 1945 to 1963; of heart disease; in Belle Meade, N.J. Van Dusen combined a profound faith with skepticism over excessive dogmatism and clerical parochialism. His ordination was held up for two years while Presbyterian leaders agonized over his right to question the literal biblical rendition of the Virgin birth. During Van Dusen's tenure as president, Union's enrollment doubled and such studies as psychiatry and religious drama joined the curriculum. A prime organizer of the World Council of Churches, Van Dusen frequently trekked about the globe promoting Protestant ecumenism...
...with pain even when they do feel it, for the little power they have is so tenuous. Although this is changing--often in confusing ways, women still get a sense of themselves and of their power over other people--especially men--in the same way a 35 year old virgin named Ethel Blake does...