Word: devout
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...will give just one vivid example of the opportunistic trend-chasing that the Ivy league has systematically cally rewarded with its ultimate honors. A prominent woman literature professor at Harvard obtained her present position as a devout disciple of Deride and Paul de Man, an affiliation that changed only in the late Eighties when it was revealed that de man was a Nazi sympathizer. For this and other reasons, deconstruction began to sink...
...details remain of Marie Sullivan's life.She was headstrong, a devout Catholic, a widow,Irish by birth and the youngest of three siblings.She lived in Harvard Square, and now resides ingrave 112, range 72, of the Cambridge Cemeterywelfare lot. She could have been almost anyone,but her strength of character set her apart inlife and afterword, friends said. "I think whatwas unique about Marie was that she was notbitter...She was a genuinely warm, caring person,"Fels said. "She touched people...
...when Collins signed on as a junior faculty member at Michigan, he had been married for 15 years to his high school sweetheart and had two daughters, ages 14 and 10. Just as important to him, he had become a devout Christian, focusing on what had previously seemed an irrelevant corner of life. While living in the campus town of Ann Arbor, Collins and his wife helped start a Baptist church. The congregation -- and his marriage -- has since dissolved, but his faith, which he describes as basically nondenominational, endures...
Exiles who dream of a revolution from below would despair. Many of the Cubans we meet show no interest in politics, nor do they talk about a political solution to their country's problems. But not because this is a nation of devout communists: "Most people became revolutionary not from reading Karl Marx," says Blanco, "but because they saw suffering in the streets." Even in the privacy of a dissident's house, there is no eager call for multiparty democracy. Most Cubans do not seem to care what kind of political system they have as long as they have...
...traditions in the larger society. Hindus have discovered that they must inculcate their faith in their young much more consciously and aggressively than in India, where it could be taken for granted. As new religions find their footing and become bolder, some analysts believe that surprises are in store. Devout adherents of Asian religions, for example, are as uncomfortable as Middle American Protestant Fundamentalists with the sort of secularization that U.S. intellectuals have fostered in education, law, politics, entertainment and the arts. Phong Nguyen, leader of a Vietnamese Buddhist congregation in Washington, sounds for all the world like a Christian...