Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...enormous price for performing. He retired to Plains, Ga., to raises peanuts. That was about ten years ago. Well, in this bicentennial year, peanuts and Plains, Ga., ring a bell? Damn right it does: that's Jimmy Carter's occupation and home town. A coincidence? Hardly. Crusher's friends admit that he has lost more than four hundred pounds, shaved his beard, and dyed his hair blond. But they say you can still tell him by his smile. Figure it out for yourselves, my friends...
...uncensored and free," that has been ruining the nation's morale and crushing its productive spirit. The film opens in a Senate hearing room, where stern politicians are grilling Tunnelvision's creator. The senators want to know why people spend all their time watching this menace, so they admit as evidence a condensed version of a typical day of Tunnelvision from sign-on to sign-off. Rolling the tape, they sit back with the rest of the audience and are drawn under by the new medium's influence...
...Hughes, one must admit, was most worth our notice when he was dedicated to making himself unnoticeable. His was not a life with much substance in it, having been most conspicuous for his dream of floating large bodies not quite airworthy, such as Jane Russell and that plywood transport...
...farm. Recalls Carter: "Ruth asked me if I would give up anything for Christ, if I would give up my life and my possessions?everything. I said I would. Then she asked if I would be willing to give up politics. I thought a long time and had to admit that I would not." His sister warned that until he could, he would be plagued with self-doubts. Stapleton says that Carter cried during the conversation, but he has no such recollection. In any event, the experience led directly to his being "born again."* Says he: "I established a more...
...prime source of his belief is the Bible, but he reads it somewhat critically. Says he: "I find it difficult to question Holy Scripture, but I admit that I do have trouble with Paul sometimes, especially when he says that a woman's place is with her husband, and that she should keep quiet and cover her head in church. I just can't go along with him on that." Carter also has read deeply from the works of religious thinkers such as Reinhold Niebuhr, Karl Earth, Paul Tillich and Soren Kierkegaard and quotes from them. In particular...