Word: devout
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...variously called his faith. He came to it, he says, out of social resentment (the Sinclairs had come down in the world). Socialism was then in its quasi-religious phase, and he became one of its missionary preachers. It gave him fame and a million dollars from devout readers who devoured the prophet's politics and didn't care a damn about his prose...
...clock bedtime. There is a certain displeasure in France because 62-year-old Yvonne "does not play the President's wife." Self-effacing, silent, withdrawn, Mme. de Gaulle so avoids publicity that she is one of the most anonymous of all the wives of world leaders. A devout Roman Catholic, she is rumored to have vetoed a projected ministerial appointment because she disapproved of the sexual laxity of the man's wife. Her effect on De Gaulle is to tug him toward conformity, tone down his barracks vocabulary, soothe his rages. The De Gaulles use the vous form...
...when Michigan desperately needed one. His victory was one of charisma, that indefinable quality of leadership, force and spiritual magnetism that defies pat explanations. The fact that he is a Mormon-and president of the Detroit Stake (district) of the Mormon church-had much to do with it. For devout Mormons count as cardinal principles of their religion individual responsibility and dedication to public service...
...University of Utah boosters invited him to a recruiting banquet, but the dinner was postponed. Utah State talent hunters asked him to a swimming party, took one look at his skinny body in swimming trunks and crossed him off. When less choosy Brigham Young offered him an athletic scholarship, devout Mormon Fortie jumped at the chance. As a sophomore at B.Y.U., he played second-string T-formation quarterback: last year, as a single-wing tailback, he was a sensation when he played, but he spent almost half of the season on the bench, nursing an injured ankle...
Fabled Rages. Living alumni still shiver at the memory of lean, eagle-beaked Alfred E. Stearns, the devout, athletic zealot who ruled Andover for 30 years prior to 1933. Stearns hired the fabled Latinist Georgie Hinman, who jabbed penknives into his wooden leg, chewed pencils in half, caromed erasers off thick skulls, and made students flush bad translations down the toilets. Yet it was also Stearns who steered Andover toward opulence. In 1908 he took over the seminary's buildings when that institution fell on bad times and slunk off to Harvard. He raised $1,000,000 for teachers...