Word: fundamentalist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fundamentalist...
...most notable name on Welch's list of "Inadequate" programs is giant Southwestern Baptist Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. Others on the blacklist are Baylor, Case Western Reserve, and Rice universities; New Orleans Baptist Seminary; the fundamentalist Dallas and Grace seminaries; the Catholic Aquinas Institute; and the Jewish Dropsie College. These days, it seems, even mediocrity is ecumenical...
...though he does admit to a certain "in" with the Almighty. "God and I travel together with righteousness and goodness. If people want to tag along, they can." While such words would sound intolerably conceited from any other pop star, they come inoffensively from Gaye. Part mystic, part pentecostal fundamentalist, part socially aware ghetto graduate, this particular Motown superstar simply happens to believe that he speaks to God and vice versa...
...fancy Dan, Devine has kept the Packers in the fundamentalist Lombardi mold: solid defense and methodical, ball-control offense. A former quarterback at the University of Minnesota who married the school's homecoming queen, he began his head-coaching career at Arizona State in 1955; three years later he moved to Missouri, where he led the Tigers to twelve straight winning seasons and six bowl-game appearances. Fastidious to a fault, Devine, 46, has a penchant for washing his whistle in alcohol after every practice. "If you're looking for a word for me," he says...
Doctors themselves often exhibit conflicting attitudes. Practicing Roman Catholics generally refuse to perform the procedure. Official church teaching holds unequivocally that abortion is taking human life and thus a crime against both God and man. The church threatens with excommunication anyone who obtains or performs the operation. Fundamentalist Protestants and some Orthodox Jews also oppose abortion. Though some rabbis and Protestant ministers have been leaders in the abortion reform movement, other liberal clergymen believe that abortion is justified only in those rare instances when it is necessary to save the mother's life...