The heroine of the new, 675-page novel is 18-year-old Charlotte Simmons, the pertinacious prodigy of a tiny mountain town in North Carolina who gets a full ride to the venerable Dupont.
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Despite his expressed wish to be fair to Hitler, he called anti-Semitism " the hatred of the lazy, ignorant fat-headed Gentile for the pertinacious Jew who, schooled by adversity to use his brains to the utmost, outdoes him in business ".
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She often read from " Votes for Women ! ", a pro-suffrage play by Elizabeth Robins, portraying multiple characters that ranged from " the doughty women's trade union leader with the cockney dialect " to " the bright, little, pertinacious middle-class'Suffragette,'with her high-pitched volubility on the platform ".
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In a statement McNeill responded that " gay men most likely to act out their sexual needs in a unsafe, compulsive way, and therefore expose themselves to the HIV virus, are precisely those who have internalised the self-hatred that their religions impose on them . " In 1986, the Society of Jesus subsequently dismissed him for " pertinacious disobedience " from the order and effectively the priesthood.
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In Expositions on the Psalms Augustine wrote, Nothing has been attacked with the same pertinacious, contentious contradiction, in the Christian faith, as the resurrection of the flesh . . . many Gentile philosophers have . . . written that the soul is immortal : when they come to the resurrection of the flesh . . . they most openly deny it, declaring it to be absolutely impossible that this earthly flesh can ascend to Heaven . Mormons believe that the truth about God's corporeal nature was first restored to the earth when the Father and the Son appeared to the fourteen-year-old Joseph Smith in 1820 to begin the restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
