Word: believerism
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In a display of frugality, the colonel tools about Tripoli in a Volvo or Land Rover, but he recently publicly chided a slumdweller earning $2.80 a day for not building his family a better house. Gaddafi was married in 1969 to the daughter of an army officer, with Nasser as...
Status Quoism. Surrogates for religion, Kaufmann says, include political movements like the New Left, and schools of thought such as analytical philosophy, Marxism and psychoanalysis. Once he has become a true believer, the decidophobe has only the enjoyable decisions to make: "One has chosen the flames and the rules and...
Malraux's notion of Mao as expressed in his book. He reminded Malraux both of the old Chinese emperors and "the Old Man of the Mountain." Malraux saw him as a romantic revolutionary talking about the "Sons of the People," much as the old China talked of the "Son...
Fortune Dundy-or Fortunée when the mood strikes her-is a 30-year-old virgin when she checks into Dionysus West, a jerry-built, mob-owned "swingles" trap for the 25-to-40 set. She is the kind of hysterical small-town girl that William Inge used to...
Jimmy was a great believer in the ideal of the student-athlete, and while he devoted all of his energies to sports, he considered a player's studies to be more important. His greatest pride came in following the careers of his boys after they had graduated.