Word: faithfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Smallest Since Wilson. The vote pattern underscored yet again the fragmented condition of American politics. Negroes were almost unanimous for Humphrey, showing no faith whatever in Nixon's promise to give blacks "a piece of the action." The Northeast was Humphrey country, with the important exception of New Jersey, where Governor Richard Hughes blamed what he termed Wallace's "hate vote" for the narrow Democratic defeat. Nixon and Wallace divided the South, except for Texas. Nixon dominated most of the Midwestern and Western states. Historically, there is nothing too unusual about minority Presidents. In the 37 elections since...
...fixed fate. The very freedom of Western culture puts a heavy burden on losers. Western man's destiny is largely up to him?and so are his failures. The fabulous opportunities open to a new people on a new continent became the basis of a secular religion, a faith in competition and success. That faith shaped the American's attitude not only about his role in life but also about his country's role in the world. To a nation that has never lost a war, Douglas Mac-Arthur was being logical: "There can be no substitute for victory...
...more sophisticated black Christianity, it was argued, would transform the Negro's religion, which since slavery days has been based on the hope of salvation in the hereafter, into a faith more relevant to his present social and economic concerns. This ideal was supported by Ron Karenga, Los Angeles leader of the black nationalist US, who accused churches of foisting "spookism" on his soul brothers. "Spookism," he explained acidly, "means believing you're going to fly away without the necessary means of transportation...
...attention to anything but economic and administrative expediency. Nigeria is an uneasy marriage of over two hundred tribal groupings, many with linked histories and cultural similarities, others with very different roots and ways of living. The Hausa-Fulani with about 29 million tribesmen dominate the North. Islam is their faith, and they trace their origins to the North and East of Africa...
Remembered Sermon. The man who runs this vast ecclesiastical enterprise, appropriately enough, has a faith in capitalism that almost matches his fervent faith in Jesus. The title of the sermon with which he kicked off this year's budget drive was called "God's Business Is Big Business." A spellbinding orator, Criswell was chosen by First Baptist in rather an odd way. A graduate of Baylor University, he happened to be preaching in a small Kentucky backwoods church one Sunday in 1934 when a prominent Baptist layman from Nashville, John L. Hill, was present. Hill never forgot...