Word: fundamentalist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contrast, Gaddafi, 31, is a fundamentalist Moslem zealot, who scrupulously observes the Ramadan fast. Since coming to power in a 1969 coup, he has revived such early Islamic practices as amputating the hands of thieves and the public stoning of adulterers. He has made it illegal for foreigners as well as Libyans to drink liquor. The most consistently bellicose of Arab leaders, he has urged a holy war to exterminate Israel...
...Some fundamentalist Christian critics were less easy to appease, especially when 43 Roman Catholic dioceses joined Key 73. The fundamentalists charged that the campaign was sacrificing important doctrinal distinctions for the sake of a watered-down Gospel. Its defenders counter that the basic Christian message is difficult enough to sell without ecclesiastical infighting...
...rise of H.G. Wells from a boy in extreme poverty to a man of influence in the early twentieth century is infinitely more intriguing than analogous stories on this side of the Atlantic about Carnegie or Rockefeller. Wells was born in 1866 to a fanatically fundamentalist mother and a relatively impotent cricket-playing father perched ominously close to the bottom rung of a socially immobile ladder of Victorian society. Relying mostly on his raw intelligence, voracious reading habits, and an outstanding ability to cram, Wells was able to avoid the draper's life his mother had so carefully planned...
...holds to the fundamentalist faith of his father, but does not attend church because he cannot find one that teaches a literal enough interpretation of the Scriptures. His personal taste in music runs to classical. In fact, one of his early productions was a recording of Brahms' Lullaby that caused his daughter some confusion. When she heard the melody at school, she loyally insisted, despite her teacher's objection: "My Daddy wrote that song, and we've got the record at home to prove...
Grotesques seem to abound here; The old men who every night shuffle out in old bedroom slippers, head naked and gaunt over the walking stick without which even his incredibly slow progress would be impossible. The buck-toothed man, as if drawn by Grosz, handing out the fundamentalist Watchtower. The butcher-like businessman who refuses his subway seat to the cripple thrusting a certificate of disability into his face. The street hawker of lottery tickets, with 50 mark bills stuck around hat band and belt, and a sign announcing the "security" to be gained from the lottery. Lapses of taste...