Word: placing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grave's a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace...
...enters its lower ranks, the deaconry, for example, at puberty. By the time he is a middle-aged adult, he may well be a high priest. Some 70% of practicing Mormon males advance all the way through the priesthood, hoping thus to assure themselves and their families of a place in the highest level of the afterlife, the celestial kingdom. But the priesthood, and with it the key to that kingdom, has been for most of Mormon history barred to anyone with the slightest evidence of Negro ancestry. Last week, in reply to charges of racism, Mormon elders reaffirmed their...
...discriminated against." Indeed, argue the Mormons, they believe that the U.S. Constitution was "divinely inspired," and they uphold the right of the Negro to "full constitutional privileges as a member of society." What is at issue, says the statement, is the Mormons' own theology about the place of the Negro in the divine scheme, and that is protected by the First Amendment since it "falls wholly within the category of religion...
...Gradually the teacher steers the children into talking about what is the use of a hierarchy in the first place. "The system keeps the peace," she suggests. The hour ends with a spirited game in which one team of children defines the characteristics of each member of a baboon troop, and then another team tries to guess where the individual described fits into the baboon hierarchy...
...office-and she has no doubts about her ability to swim in that sea. "It seems to me," she says, "that one has always to ask the question of whether he is willing to put his activity where his social convictions are, and mine are in this kind of place...