Word: evangelistic
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Feldman plays the role of a Trappist monk who leaves the seclusion of the monastery to raise money to pay the mortgage. Along the way he encounters an unscrupulous traveling minister (Boyle), a "hooker with a heart of gold" (Lasser), and a corrupt, power-hungry TV evangelist named Armageddon T. Thunderbird (his initials are A.T.T...
...from those he calls "the proselytizers." Though he never says so outright--he couches all criticism of former justices in the most diplomatic phrases--he never liked these proselytizers, the most celebrated being Harlan Stone, Hugo Black, and Felix Frankfurter. Douglas viewed the justice's job differently, less an evangelist than a workman who makes up his mind, then goes home...
...their accomplishments of the past decade, women's rights seem threatened as never before. From coast to coast, pressure groups banding together under a "right-to-life" banner are successfully beginning to undermine state laws guaranteeing women easy access to abortion. Uniting with other conservative groups--ranging from TV-evangelist Rev. Jerry Falwell and his "Moral Majority" to Phyllis Schafly and her "STOP ERA" diehards, these "pro-family" forces have vowed to reverse the progressive trends of the '70s. They are plotting to prevent the ERA's enactment, repeal abortion laws, eliminate federal financing of day-care centers, and prevent...
...fact, was low. Said Laurence Radway, a professor of government at Dartmouth College and former chairman of the New Hampshire Democratic Party: "In the past, Carter has been partly an engineer and partly an evangelical -an evangelical engineer. In his acceptance speech, the engineer was there, but the evangelist wasn...
...only prudent to have a year's store of food on hand in case of pestilence or famine. Their grand sachem is Howard Ruff, 49, devout Mormon, professional pessimist and author of How to Prosper During the Coming Bad Years (2.5 minion copies sold). Ruff is the economic evangelist behind Ruff Hou$e, a half-hour syndicated television show that preaches to 2 million viewers every week the benefits of investing in hard goods, gold, silver coins and small-town real estate. Acting on his own forecasts of "major social and political disruptions in the country's urban...