Word: worshiper
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...heightened awareness of the physical world and a messianic tendency to preach." The author emerges as a different sort of evangelist than one might imagine. In an excerpt from one of his early poems, the virginal schoolmaster addresses his own sadly neglected member: "Thou proud, curved beauty Would worship these, letting my buttocks prance...
...they are being pressured to establish peer-review panels staffed by scientific experts to gauge the merit of competing proposals. Automatic promotions, still typical at many academic institutions, are also coming under attack, and some brave souls have even mounted an assault on the Confucian ethos -- particularly its stultifying worship of professors and its reluctance to question authority. Wen Chang, a young researcher at Academia Sinica, politely but firmly objects to being addressed as Teacher Chang. "I tell students that there is no authority in science," she says. "Everything can be overthrown the very next...
...what of us, the viewing public? Are not the dreams of Gates and Agee our dreams in some fundamental sense? Don't we need them to succeed and become the next "Magic" or Jordan, demigods we all can worship? To watch this three-hour documentary is to be implicated in the vices it depicts...
...latest verse of the Clinton Administration's shiftingschool prayer stance, Vice President Al Gore today came out against it. "I oppose any proposal and the President opposes any proposal to have government employees taking over the responsibility of teaching our children how to worship God, or what tradition in which to worship God or how to pray," Gore told the General Assembly of the Council of Jewish Federations. "That is the job that must be handled by families, parents, churches, synagogues" and other religious organizations, Gore said as the audience applauded. Gore's statements fly in the face of Clinton...
...modern liberals, of course, don't worship the god of the Founders," McGuire said. "They worship the god of egalitarianism. And liberals today are wailing, gnashing their teeth, staging demonstrations on the steps of Widener, all because Murray and Herrnstein dare to say that their god is dead...