Word: fervent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...campaign workers leaped off their feet in joy. Leaning forward with the mild-mannered charm of a televangelist talking to a camera, yet drawing on the rhythmic cadences of a polished preacher, the Rev. Pat Robertson delivered an ecumenical version of the message that has attracted such a fervent cadre of crusaders to his Republican presidential campaign. "Whether we're rich, whether we're poor -- whether we're management, whether we're labor -- whether we're black, whether we're white -- whether we're educated, whether we're uneducated -- We -- Are -- All -- Americans...
...church leaders later moved to the university stadium for an ecumenical prayer service attended by 60,000 worshipers. There John Paul delivered a fervent plea for Christians to join in protecting marriage and traditional morality. In America, he proclaimed, "the family is being shaken to its roots. The consequences for individuals and society in personal and collective instability and unhappiness are incalculable...
...addition to Biden and Kennedy, criticism of Bork in the Judiciary Committee is likely to come from Paul Simon, who, like Biden, is a candidate for the Democratic nomination. Bork's most fervent support will come from two conservative Republicans, South Carolina's Strom Thurmond and Utah's Orrin Hatch. Later, when the issue reaches the Senate floor, Minority Leader Robert Dole will head the fight on Bork's behalf. The three key swing votes on the committee: Republican Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania and Democrats Howell Heflin of Alabama and Dennis DeConcini of Arizona. Last week DeConcini still...
...which North and Poindexter are entitled under the law. "The best thing that could happen now from Ronald Reagan's standpoint would be indictment and acquittal," says a prominent Republican attorney. "He could then say, 'We were right all along.' " Says Republican Congressman Henry Hyde of Illinois, a fervent Reagan ally on the Iranscam committee: "I oppose any presidential pardon until the gates of the prison are about to clang shut." And if Poindexter and North are convicted? "If I were President and they had been % found guilty," says Hyde, "I wouldn't want to leave office with them...
Increasingly, a growing number of Americans are focusing on the doings of the huge, semisecret gospel business empires like PTL that have sprung up in little more than a decade of fervent television preaching (see following story). Many are not happy with what they see. A Gallup poll survey this spring showed that since 1980 there has been a sharp decline in American public esteem for four of the country's most important TV preachers: Oklahoma- based Oral Roberts (whose approval rating dropped from 66% to 28%), Swaggart (76% to 44%), Virginia's Pat Robertson (65% to 50%) and California...