Word: faithfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Opening Day, all the doubt and despair of the next six months is superceded by boundless hope undying faith...
That is little solace for Brian. "We're talking my career here," says Brian, now 23. "I trusted these guys and said, 'O.K., I'll put my faith in you.' I was shortchanged. There are times I feel that I was nothing more than a piece of equipment, like a football or a practice jersey that the athletic department owned." Brian was recently making $8,000 a year playing for the Topeka Sizzlers in the C.B.A. He is wondering what's next...
...wider circles, Irving is known as a modern American Dickens. His novels are animated by victims of society who grapple with issues such as terrorism, rape and abortion. Owen Meany goes a step beyond. "I'm moved and impressed by people with a great deal of religious faith," says Irving, an Episcopalian who admits that the compulsory churchgoing of his youth has had a cumulative effect. But, he adds, "the Christ story impresses me in heroic, not religious, terms...
...hagiographies and heroic tales, faith is tested by adversity. Wheelwright's challenge is vintage Irving, an event that is simultaneously horrifying and absurdly funny. It occurs during a Little League game in the summer of 1953 when Meany, in the lineup because his diminutive strike zone draws walks, swings away. He connects for a mighty foul ball that shoots toward the stands and fatally strikes Wheelwright's mother on the head. The game is suspended along with, it is hoped, the reader's disbelief...
...total abolition of all gun ownership -- that, if today the U.S. Government takes the Kalashnikov from the hands of the maniac on the school playground, it will be coming for my Winchester pump tomorrow. There is no evidence for this absurd belief, but it remains an article of faith. And it does so because the faith is bad faith: the stand the N.R.A. takes is only nominally on behalf of recreational hunters. The people it really serves are gun manufacturers and gun importers, whose sole interest is to sell as many deadly weapons of as many kinds to as many...