Word: fundamentalist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Clemente. Without arguing with his old friend, Nixon suggested that all the nation's serious ills are curable without divine intervention. It was the President's first appearance before a campus audience since U.S. troops marched into Cambodia, but of course this audience was more fundamentalist than collegiate. Perhaps 500 protesters in the stands flourished signs that read THOU SHALT NOT KILL. But the vast majority of the congregation drowned out the antiwar chants with their cheers. It was Nixon country, and the guest speaker was obviously enjoying himself...
...There are 4000 students at B.J.U. who are studying for a BA or Ph.D. in Religion or Fine Arts, the only two graduate programs the university offers. Founded in 1935 as a nondenominational fundamentalist college, Bob Jones University is "dedicated to teaching a Christian perspective in liberal arts education." Harrison said...
...Pressures. A few men in the White House contend that there is a sizable element of public opinion that would like to see the U.S. go all out in Cambodia as it has not in Viet Nam. In support of this view, an estimated 50,000 demonstrators, led by Fundamentalist Preacher Carl Mclntire, last week held a "March for Victory" along Washington's Pennsylvania Avenue. Stronger political forces at home, however, are pressuring Nixon to continue the troop withdrawals and avoid entanglements in Laos and Cambodia. Maine's Democratic Senator Edmund Muskie, who has begun a weekly series...
...tardiness to any meeting, $50 a pound is the cost of excess fat at Thursday weigh-ins. No mustaches or mutton chops are permitted. Long hair is utterly unthinkable. How does Stram reconcile his own flamboyant wardrobe (30 suits, often set off by a red vest) with his fundamentalist attitude? "If it's my team, things have to be done my way. That...
...convergence theory, in the words of Kremlinologist Bertram Wolfe, is "vulgar Marxism." It posits a fundamentalist belief in economic determinism that Marx himself would probably have disavowed. It ignores or underrates the role played by traditions, value systems and even national characteristics in deciding the future of societies. The concepts that people have of national characteristics, of course, are often mere caricatures, but they generally contain some truth, of a subtler variety than meets the eye. The American devotion to individualism and freedom can be exaggerated; yet the Lockean principles of individual liberty and ordered freedom that underlie...