Word: believerism
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Yet TR's influence on Bush reaches beyond rhetoric and interior decorating. Early on Bush declared himself a different kind of conservative, different from the government-libeling libertarians who seized Congress in the Republican Revolution of 1994. Like TR, he would be a "big government conservative," a believer in "limited...
There is much Washington could learn from studying Theodore Roosevelt. Paying little regard to either the Republican or Democratic bosses, he was a natural maverick who did what he thought was right. A passionate believer in technology, TR, in 1902, became the first President to ride in an automobile - something...
A STRONG BELIEVER
Your numbers item noted the big gap in winnings paid to men and women champions at "Wimbledon, the only Grand Slam event that still pays men more" [April 17]. And why not? The women's matches are the best of only three sets, not five. Less work means less pay...
The same way Gatsby chased Daisy, Misha chases his imagined America--with perfect, pure good faith, going further and further out on a limb until he's the only true believer in sight. He is, of course, doomed to be disillusioned and heartbroken--the novel ends hopefully, but the dateline...