Word: believerism
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In these happy circumstances delegates voted freely. After jockeying about with old-fashioned gusto, the convention picked not Smith, but tall, stooped A. Willis Robertson, 59, a Congressman for 13 years, a member of the Ways & Means Committee for ten years. Virginians recognized Robertson's own special qualities: he...
Then came the details. Tennant, a believer in "easy does it" tennis, decided that Pauline's strength was in her killer instinct ("She has the quality of a stevedore"). So she strengthened Pauline's weak forehand by cutting two-thirds off the backswing and adding it to the...
Dean Sperry's understatement on the U.S. separation of church & state: "We [Americans] may have saved ourselves . . . from the public and often unedifying conflicts between church and state which have so often marked the history of the Old World. . . . But the reference of all such matters back from the...
In those 37 years his machine ticked ceaselessly. It kept a card index on all voters, saw that every true believer paid a poll tax and cast a ballot, discouraged all heathen who could not be converted to the Crump gospel. If it had occasionally voted a few dead men...
Peckerwood Mystics. These tiny congregations represent obscure sects with a fertile confusion of names-the Pentecostal Fire-Baptized Holiness Church, Hephzibah Faith Missionary Association, Pillar of Fire, Church of Daniel's Band, etc. Observers classify them in three main types, often overlapping: 1) Pentecostal, teaching that the Holy Spirit...