Word: believerism
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Soft-spoken feminist, shuns the term women's liberation . . . Says she's "sort of old-fashioned," believer in women's obligations within the family . . . With Fellow Economics Professor Clifton Kreps Jr., has raised three children . . . Fancier of classical music and Duke Ellington jazz . . . Episcopalian . . . Politically liberal, but...
Died. Walter A. Griffin, 102, believed to have been the oldest practicing physician in the U.S. until his retirement last January; in Sharon, Mass. A graduate of Harvard Medical School, Griffin began his practice in Sharon in 1901, making house calls by horse and buggy (his fee: $1.50). The doctor...
"A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts," Paul Johnson writes. Johnson is an Orwellian socialist deeply concerned for liberty, a dyspeptically progressive Roman Catholic, former editor of the left-wing British journal New Statesman, and a believer with a passion for accuracy. He has written a...
Taking their places are politically savvy lawmen like Robert L. (for Lee, naturally) Turner, 46, of Autauga County, Ala. Like most of his Deep South colleagues, who generally still favor straightening out troublemakers in the woods behind the courthouse. Turner is a firm believer in law-and-order. But he...
From the start, both his times and his temperament have cast shadows across Sevareid, the all-American believer in simple faiths, decent instincts and great men. A cosmopolite from Velva (pop. 1,241), N. Dak., he was born into a bleak prairie universe whose "skyline offered nothing to soothe the...