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After the Civil War, Southern Evangelicalism was battered by defeat and a sense of hopelessness. Much of the Northern wing turned to premillennialism, the belief that Christ's return was imminent and that society would inevitably get worse before it occurred. By the late 1800s, the great evangelist Dwight L. Moody literally preached a lifeboat ethic: "I look on the world as a wrecked vessel. God has given me a lifeboat and said, 'Save all you can.' " Biblical conservatives withdrew from activism. Evangelical Historian Timothy Smith describes this as the "Great Reversal," which persists to the present day. White Evangelical...
...during World War II, Bruce helped rebuild the Continent as an administrator of the Marshall Plan and later as Ambassador to France under Harry Truman. A strong advocate of a united Europe, he scored a kind of diplomatic grand slam by heading embassies in Bonn (under Dwight Eisenhower) and London (under John Kennedy) as well as Paris. His last assignment, fittingly, was as Ambassador to NATO, and ended only last year. Though Bruce was a lifelong Democrat, Richard Nixon named him to head the American delegation at the Viet Nam peace talks in Paris, and later the U.S. liaison office...
...losing battle for his job. Carter planned to visit nine countries in eleven days, starting Nov. 22. But last week he decided to call off the four-continent whirlwind -and thus became the first President to unpack his bags on the eve of a major, announced foreign trip since Dwight Eisenhower was prevented from going to Japan in 1960 because of anti-American riots by left-wing Japanese students...
...Quincy House tackle football team, led by its stalwart defense which has allowed only three touchdowns all season, battered Dwight-Silliman, 13-0, to give Harvard its only victory over the Yale Colleges in Friday's intramural tackle football competition...
Attorney General Griffin Bell managed to shoehorn an energy pitch into a speech to the National Security Traders Association in Boca Raton, Fla. Speaking at the commissioning of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower in Norfolk, Va., Defense Secretary Harold Brown found a way to deplore the fact that the nation "relies on overseas sources for half the oil we consume." On a swing through Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle, HEW Secretary Joseph Califano strayed from his talks on welfare problems to argue that the poor would suffer most if the Senate failed to approve Carter...