Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dawn on Tuesday, Jimmy's sister Ruth Stapleton flew to Atlantic City to promote her book The Gift of Inner Healing. Sales lately have been running at 4,000 copies a week. Ruth signed autographs and chatted with about 200 people who were standing in line at the Christian Booksellers Association convention (see RELIGION). Then she flew back to New York and the intrusion of politics. She received letters addressed "Jimmy's Sister" or "Faith Healer, Plains...
...Long-suffering Uncle Tom was the embodiment of a Christian virtue-turning the other cheek. It was not until the mid-1950s that the virtue officially became a vice in the eyes of black militants...
...sanity after the ideological rending of 1968 and 1972. Martin Nolan, one of the best of Washington columnists, compares the McGovern and Carter installations as a constrast between a Rotary convention and Woodstock nation. This viewpoint implies that the Democrats have gone back to being something akin to the Christian Democrats of Italy--a permanent majority party dedicated to winning elections and dispensing patronage, oblivious to broader issues since the American electorate is itself "non-ideological." The foregoing opinion has the virtue of being comfortable: it tells people like my father, a liberal man who's voted for Roosevelt four...
...that was forgotten when he stepped on the stage. In his soft southern drawl he told how his daddy taught him to play and sing, and how it was time for us to get back together again, and about his Christian faith and his little daughter in the 60 per cent black school...
...Italian Premier Moro and British Prime Minister Callaghan listened attentively-but both face such sensitive political pressures at home they are not free to put the Puerto Rican summit advice into practice. Any Christian Democrat who forms a post-election Italian government will have to gain the support of the Communists for an effective economic stabilization plan. The result might be unacceptable to Western financial experts, and their refusal could push Italy farther down the path toward financial ruin-and hasten the time when the Italian Communists do come to power...