Word: albertism
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...panel, titled "Religion and Politics," featured Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of Tikkun magazine; Jeff Taylor, director of governmental affairs for the Christian Coalition (CC); Jim Wallis, a fellow at the Center for Study of Values in Public Life and editor of Sojourner magazine; Rev. Dr. Albert Pennybacker of the National Coalition of Churches of Christ and Anna Greenberg, assistant professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School...
...Ford was brought to Harvard as a Heffernan visiting fellow of the IOP, and delivered the Albert H. Gordon '23 endowed lecture...
From a stunning 1960s-era Ford Thunderbird, Albert L. "Dapper" O'Neill waved hello and gave a thumbs-up sign. Raymond Flynn, former U.S. ambassador to the Vatican and former Democratic candidate for the Eighth Congressional District, also stopped to speak with Clifford...
...GREASEMAN Builds d.j. career on scatology, kills it with racist remark. Makes Marv Albert look like a swell...
Ultimately the novel fails because Codrescu's ideas are more banal than fantastic. Conspiracy theory, millennium madness, channeling of spirits: these are dated visions, and the date on the can has expired. Angels hovering above New Orleans, Albert Einstein reincarnated in the body of gigolo and pessimistic condemnations of consumer culture no longer have anything to offer us. Perhaps half a century from now a Hist & Lit concentrator writing a thesis on millennium madness will come across this novel as yet another example of kitsch ushering in the end of the world...