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  • 121Bernard of Chartres — (d. c. 1130)    Theologian.    Bernard was the elder brother of thierry of chartres and was born in Brittany. Little is known of his life except that he was Chancellor of the School of Chartres from 1119 until at least 1124 and that gilbert de la …

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  • 122Boniface — (680–754)    Archbishop, Saint and Missionary.    Boniface’s original name was Wynfrith and he was born in Devonshire, England. As a young man, he became a monk and, after acting as an emissary for the King of Wessex, he initially chose to spread …

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  • 123arrant — a. 1. Notorious, utter, gross, downright, consummate, rank, thorough going. 2. Infamous, vile, atrocious, monstrous …

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  • 124strong — adj 1. mighty, powerful, strong as a bull or horse or moose or lion, Herculean, Atlantean, Sl. packing a punch or wallop, Archaic. potential; muscular, sinewy, wiry, brawny, strapping, well built, athletic, musclebound; sturdy as an ox, burly,… …

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  • 125Harrington, Michael (Edward) — (1928–1989)    Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Harrington was a prominent Marxist political activist. He advocated a thorough going democratic, peaceful, humanist, ethical Marxism, and sought to work with liberal groups, notably the Democratic Party …

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  • 126image —    by John Lechte   The key to understanding the image in Baudrillard s work is that it is not representational. In other words, it does not re present reality or the real. Semiotically speaking, the existence of the referent is problematic. All… …

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  • 127utter — English has two distinct words utter, but they come from the same ultimate source – out. The older, ‘complete, thorough going’ [OE] originated as a comparative form of out (or ūt, as it was in the Old English period), and so morphologically is… …

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  • 128supergovernment — “+ noun Etymology: super + government 1. : an international governing body having the power to enforce its decisions upon member nations 2. : government by a group or body that has no authority to govern but that can force its decisions upon a… …

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