Word: christian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Baldwin and Richard Wright have warned that anti-Semitic feelings run deep in black communities, where Jewish shopkeepers and landlords were the only whites within reach and thus came to represent white oppression generally. Being anti-Semitic often seemed a way for blacks to join forces with the white Christian majority, to gain acceptability by turning on another minority...
What makes Greater Tuna's sense of humor honestly "American" is its sardonic yet down-to-earth spoof on what has become a revived common theme: family morality and the claustrophobic individual, the contemporary southern syndrome of small town suffocation. In Tuna, matters like segregation, Christian biology, and textbook censorship aren't issues--they're fact, as fundamental as hunting season and hell. The town's moral crusades attack hippies, the liberal press, and literary art with a zeal that makes the Conservative Club look tolerant...
Ludwig II, King of Bavaria: Eleanor DeLorme, Fogg Museum Christian Room...
...hangs out at Hormone Derange, a cowboy store, and tries to regain his spiritual bearings with martial arts. Ransom also wants to avoid memories of a girlfriend who ODed near the Afghan border, and the presence of his Hollywood producer-director father. McInerney has an unfortunate penchant for Christian metaphors, and his story is heavy with meditations about redemption. A pity; the rest of the way he is as good as the pre-Garp John Irving. All McInerney needs, like his heroes, is to grow up a little...
...standard bearer for his country's most extreme anti-Communist elements. There were rumors aplenty (but no proof) that he had links to right-wing death squads and that he was involved in the 1980 murder of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero. Just one year ago, he nearly defeated Christian Democrat Jose Napoleon Duarte in a closely fought presidential election. But last week the political career of Roberto ("Major Bob") D'Aubuisson, 42, was at least temporarily eclipsed, when he resigned as head of the ultra-rightist Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), which he founded four years...