Word: diehardism
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...given during hospitalization for an accident. Eventually, he was doing a couple of grams a day and suffering from paranoia, roller-coaster mood swings and an inability to work. "I lived my whole life for cocaine," he recalls. Tom, too, went to the clinic and made a pact. A diehard Republican, he could think of no penance worse than forking over $1,000 to Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy. A year ago he agreed that a check should be mailed if he resumed his habit. Ted Kennedy will have to find that money elsewhere. Tom is clean. Says...
...deployment of nuclear weapons include some peacenik activists who led protests against U.S. involvement in the Viet Nam War a decade ago. But the new movement is far more broadly based; it includes more bishops than Berrigans, doctors and lawyers with impeccable Establishment credentials, archconservatives as well as diehard liberals, and such knowledgeable experts as retired Admiral Noel Gayler, former director of the supersecret National Security Agency, and former SALT II Negotiator Paul Warnke. Says Rabbi Alexander Schindler, head of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations: "Nuclear disarmament is going to become the central moral issue of the '80s, just...
Christianity--by an enormous margin--outnumbers all other U.S. religious groups. Discussing the uses of American religion for social change, therefore, is almost synonymous with discussing the uses of Protestantism and Catholicism. Jews are the most active and humanist group in this country; diehard atheists, too, have a pretty good record of social concern. It is among devoted and casual Christians-especially Protestants-that there are the vast numbers who could form new majorities, new sentiments. At least for the moment, though the bulk of organized American Christianity supports the very worst political tendencies, confusing, making synonymous, the identities...
...make up the bulk of the standard repertory. But British music-with a rich tradition stretching from Tudor church composers like William Byrd to innovative moderns like Peter Maxwell Davies-is patronized as a national school, a sort of cultural Toby-jug collection, of interest chiefly to natives and diehard Anglophiles elsewhere...
...season begins, until weeks after the season finally ends. It always takes several weeks to bury the Redskins; every game is rehashed, and every possible theory that can be advanced for either their success or failure is put forth, and no player is left uninterviewed. For a diehard Burgundy and Gold fan, it was nirvana...