Word: faithfully
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...culture. The adversarial and the cooperative need to be kept in balance, and they are a little out of whack." Two centuries ago, the colonists wondered whether they had enough in common to become a united nation at all. Ever since, each generation has struggled with the uniquely American faith that community and freedom must be compatible. It may be that the greater glory of the place is that we are able to be so divided over so many things yet still keep discovering ways to link ourselves and express those differences without flying apart. The telegraph. A love song...
...maps, coal has a curiously upbeat future. Not so the union men who mine it. Deregulation in the electric-utilities industry generally favors the cheapest means of making power, and on average, that is still coal. But deregulation also means the arrival of cost cutting as religion, the stern faith that has propelled the U.S. economy to its current world-beating performance. The strongest economy in the world is as strong as it has ever been. But as the brutal tale of the Potomac mines illustrates, this prosperity is not about abundance but about taking bigger risks with smaller margins...
Religious lore is full of men and women whose hearts turn spontaneously toward God--legions of Pauls thrown to the ground by the power of newfound faith. But in the real world, souls have always been won retail, at tent revivals and by door-to-door evangelists. The state of the art in missionary work today is "church planting," the grafting of new congregations--often immigrant or ethnic ones--onto existing churches. No city's religious establishment has pursued church planting more passionately than St. Louis'. But the city's church-planting story carries an ambivalent message: while the outreach...
...have forgotten the smoker. His bad faith, if he has it, is nothing worse than self-deception. It is his alone. Pollsters will tell you that most smokers want to quit. Maybe so. But the fact remains that many of them continue to smoke, and for many reasons. Those of an earlier generation--those few (ahem) still alive--began because Bogart and Bacall did it, and Bette Davis too: because it was cool and widely accepted. But later generations, at least those come of age after the unavoidable 1964 Surgeon General's report, found a different reason: because...
...retains a disarming faith that musicals are still a vital art form that can move people and convey serious messages. "Ragtime, Show Boat and Parade are all strong indictments of racism and anti-Semitism," says Drabinsky. "I don't know of any other medium that can make that statement as indelibly powerful as musical theater. Certainly the film studios aren't doing it. They back away all the time." Drabinsky doesn't back away; Ragtime is the latest and best proof of that...