Word: faithfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...searches daily, in vain, through the mass of publications and news broadcasts for one word that would reassure the common man that all the colored people are not Stokely Carmichaels, that all our youth are not chick-en-livered draft dodgers, that not all the people have lost faith in our President and in his honest efforts to do the best job he can under most difficult circumstances, that some of us are still proud to be Americans, living in a working democracy and ready and willing to do what we can to help anyone else achieve a like state...
Manifold Malapropisms. As Republican minority leader in a period of Democratic ascendancy, Martin kept the faith-pliantly. His malapropisms were manifold and celebrated: guided missiles became "gilded muscles"; Republican programs had "headlights" instead of highlights; his friendly archrival became "the gentleman from Rayburn, Mr. Texas." Joe Martin and Democratic Speaker Sam Rayburn were synonymous with the House for two generations of Americans. Once, when Rayburn was asked to campaign against Martin in Massachusetts, the Texan responded brusquely: "Speak against Joe? Hell, if I lived up there, I'd vote...
...Collection of Wishes. Formed by the 1960 union of British and Italian Somaliland, Somalia is populated by blacks of the Moslem faith who are largely illiterate nomads. While some Somalis in the north speak English, many southerners rattle off Italian with ease-and are only slightly less adept at the appropriate hand gestures. Italian influence also remains in the crumbling old arches and seaside villas, the pasta and Italian wines served in restaurants and the 1934 Fiat trucks that disgorge angry clouds of billowy, greasy smoke in the streets of the capital of Mogadishu...
Without Humor. As Cox sees it, mirth and festivity involve a certain juxtaposing of past with present, which has the effect of affirming experience. "When one approaches religious faith with a kind of playfulness," he says, "one can't become as anguished and inwardly torn up about belief and nonbelief as has been popular in recent theological literature. For both the Christian spirit and the comic sensibility nothing in life should be taken too seriously. The world is important but not ultimately so." One reason witty Cox is critical of a Christian atheist like Thomas Altizer is that "there...
...stiff bout of navel-gazing-and, almost surely, a religious experience that will change his existence. His guru is a holy man named Bhaiji who receives a mortal stab wound during a religious riot. And sure enough, just before his death, Bhaiji manages through his power to implant faith and purpose in Paul's life...