Word: undergirded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rest of the $20 million for "reshaping undergraduate education" will "undergird" exisiting programs, Keller says...
Lyman believes that Radcliffe's priorities now are initiative and advocacy on behalf of women in the university, and to undergird its existing programs with appropriate funding. But, she cautions: "I wouldn't want Radcliffe to be rich. There's always a need to be a bit hungry...Radcliffe is a flexible unit, and flexibility has to do with being a little insecure. You listen better when you're anxious, and I think that Radcliffe shouldn't be enormously wealthy. It would get a little fat in the head...
...seeking that balance, the bishops rapped both capitalism ("It has made the distance between rich and poor even greater by placing capital before work") and Marxist strategies (They "have sacrificed many Christian values and have fallen into unrealistic and Utopian notions"). The bishops condemned the "national security" ideologies that undergird most of Latin America's military regimes for leading "to the abuse of power and violation of human rights," but they also denounced leftist terrorism. Echoing the Pope's address, the document cautions priests to "divest themselves of all political ideology." But it does advocate Christian action. Said...