Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hubert went to the University of Minnesota, but he had to come home after his sophomore year. The Great Depression had struck, and his father needed him to help at the drugstore. For six years Hubert dispensed prescriptions and vaccinated hogs. Hard times confirmed him in the fundamentalist liberal faith from which he would rarely deviate in the years ahead. But even the darkest periods were usually sunny for Hubert. He met a hometown girl, Muriel Buck, at a dance, and she began eating lunch at the Humphrey drugstore. The pair were married and eventually had four children. Always quietly...
...report with N.A.A.C.P. Executive Director Benjamin Hooks; Carter admitted that he was "surprised" by the energy statement and that he disagreed "strongly" with its conclusions. Other pro-industry manifestoes may soon be issued by the N.A.A.C.P., whose top leaders concede that they have lost some of their old faith in Government as the primary catalyst for affirmative action. Says Denton Watson, the organization's acting public relations director: "The oldtime civil rights coalition is no longer useful for blacks. Our old liberal friends are more concerned about environmental issues and about reverse discrimination. The N.A.A.C.P. feels that blacks must...
...greatest danger facing the writer of such a "critical autobiography" (once having donned the rosy lenses of enthusiasm) may well be losing the ability to distinguish the sincere practitioners of a faith from the charlatans. However, Cox explains that his own involvement in such practices as meditation actually had the reverse effect: he found himself less tolerant of people such as students of Buddhism, who ostentatiously carried around their meditation cushions and bragged about transcendental experiences, than he had been initially...
Turning East is a far from "scientific" study of the field It is angry and amused, polemical and urbane, a cosmospolitan and Christian work. Yet, while Cox's personal faith gives the book coherence it could well lose him readers who are not so enviably optimistic as he appears to be about the future. There are a few passages that sound a bit too close to the "God is Great, God is Good" sermons. Cox's enthusiasm might disturb the complacent atheist. Nevertheless, there are moments when even the slickest cynics would probably think again, as when this indubitably religious...
...faith in and fear of God are what they think Christianity preaches, I hasten to remind them that so too do all other religions. If the Bible is divine, then so too are the Gita and the Koran; any other conclusion would imply that God discriminates. He doesn...