Word: believerism
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It was hard to miss the message that Barack Obama was sending with the powerful tableau lined up behind him onstage in Chicago. "I assembled this team because I'm a strong believer in strong personalities and strong opinions," the President-elect said of his national-security picks. The top...
It was his first formal public defense and explanation of his actions since the dust settled from the financial panic of late September and early October, and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson had clearly been thinking about it for a while. Normally a believer in brevity, especially at press conferences, he...
On the last Sunday in October, the atmosphere in Sanders Theatre resonated with a mixture of mystery and anticipation. The audience was a mixture, as well—of old and young, rustic and intellectual, neophyte and old believer. When the man that they were all waiting for, that had...
The Lowdown: By attacking the art world from all angles (artists, dealers, exhibitors, critics, students), Thornton gives us a one-stop tutorial on an often insular subculture. Accessible to even those who couldn't care less about art, Seven Days is light-hearted but sociologically acute, allowing us to both...
The setting could probably make a believer of anyone. "This is an old building," the porter at a small local hotel, converted from a 15 century storehouse, told me. "Don't be surprised if you run into a ghost." Several staff at the hotel have reported hearing babies crying when...