Word: christianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...week's massacre at Wedgwood Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas, may not have happened quite that way. That's a version being offered by someone who was there, but it's unconfirmed. Yet even if it is pious invention, it gives a glimpse of the way some evangelical Christians, children and adults alike, are thinking these days about the string of killings around the U.S. in which they have been victims. Last week's toll was added to the count of Christian teens killed at Columbine and three students killed at a 1997 prayer circle in West Paducah...
...smoking a cigarette. The first person he shot was Jeff Laster, a seminarian working as a custodian who asked him to put it out. Next was Sydney Browning, the children's choir director, resting on a sofa in the foyer, followed by a young man who had been selling Christian CDs. In the sanctuary, the shooter found a roomful of adolescents, happily celebrating that morning's observance of See You at the Pole, an annual national event in which Christian teens gather around their school flagpoles before classes to pray. A band called Forty Days was playing a song titled...
...garden-variety white racist as a student at the University of Mississippi ("I do feel that the Negro is inherently unequal," he told a New York Times interviewer in 1963, around the time James Meredith was integrating Ole Miss). In the fullness of time, he became a born-again Christian and crusading lawyer who took up the cause of Nathan Horton, a black carpenter and contractor who smoked two packs of Pall Malls a day, developed emphysema and lung cancer and filed suit against the American Tobacco Co. for $1.5 million in damages in 1986. Horton died in early...
Architect Christian De Portzamparc's innovative 23-story building in Manhattan with a faceted, overlapping glass facade [FALL PREVIEW, Sept. 6] is indeed striking, but perhaps he has unknowingly taken a leaf from Apple Computer's book. With a Bondi Blue color typical of the iMac and a translucent exterior, can this building be mistaken as anything but an iRise? Perhaps later we'll see versions in lime, blueberry, tangerine, grape and strawberry? DENNIS WINDRIM Edmonton, Alta...
...using the kind of rhetoric that led fellow Catholic conservative William Buckley to conclude, in a 1991 National Review article, that Buchanan was an anti-Semite). But he also argues that Greek-Americans, African-Americans and other "hyphenates" are too outspoken on foreign policy--drowning out the white Anglo-Christian voices he sees as truly representative of his America. And who says there are no new ideas in presidential politics? Buchanan lambastes Armenian-Americans for securing too much U.S. aid for the tiny Republic of Armenia...