Word: faithfully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...religious at Harvard? This is not a facetious question because it's not at all clear how the many religious commitments we each bring to our work here fit into the pedagogies of this university. It's not clear how keeping the faith is even feasible for members of some traditions for whom Harvard has provided no adequate facilities. And the risks of sincere encounter between systems of meaning and value that have so often exploded in violence can seem too high--who wants to replay the age-old patterns of sectarian discord in a Yard rooming group...
Both Anthea and Chinua had more than their share of obstacles in life, but they were strong and never lost faith; I remember them both being so willing to overcome. Perhaps it is because I knew them both so well that it is so difficult to believe what has happened...
This combination of a renegade vision and a faith that it will work distinguishes Forbes from the other candidates, whom he calls, in his charming preppy lexicon, "sourpusses" and "gloomy-doomies." Dole, with his barbed wit and allergy to abrupt innovation, is the most vulnerable to the comparison. "There's been a paradigm shift in politics, and I don't think Bob gets it," says Jan Anton, a California entrepreneur who was the state co-chair for Dole in '88 but is leaning toward Forbes this time. "Dole's a wheeler-dealer. He's just trying to hang...
...been far less commonplace since is their tendency, in inexpert hands, to be enslaved by chronology, to become little more than one damned thing after another. Updike aims to avoid this danger by using overarching themes to bind up the threads of his lengthy story: the decline of religious faith and the corresponding rise of the movies...
...support the family by selling encyclopedias door to door and then slowly dying of tuberculosis, becomes cautious and fearful. He takes a job as a soda jerk and eventually marries one of his customers. She is religious, but Teddy tells her not to expect him to share her faith: "My poor dad wanted to believe and needed to believe and God just stayed silent...