Word: fundamentalist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year is 1978. Henny Youngman has lapsed into senility; "Can You Top This?" has gone the way of "Leave It to Beaver," and the Harvard Lampoon has been bought by Larry Flynt, who promises to turn it into a "mostly serious" fundamentalist humor magazine. Rife preprofessionalism, proto-professionalism and postprofessionalism have sent Harvard's aspiring humorists packing off to Lamont, Baker and Langdell for the execution of life's harsh sentence: NO MORE FUNNY BUSINESS, KIDS. There are only 100 jokes left on the planet Earth, produced and sustained in a Harvard p-3 laboratory with a secret fluid extracted...
...church still has a very powerful influence, especially in Appalachia; for many people, the school and church are still the only real places of socializing." In her course this spring, she will show her own films of women's participation in Pentecostal groups, which are part of Appalachia's fundamentalist religious revivals, and in the mountain "serpent-handling" cults. She will also screen "Harlan Country USA," Barbara Kopple's movie on the Kentucky coal strike in which the miners' wives played a large role...
Hubert went to the University of Minnesota, but he had to come home after his sophomore year. The Great Depression had struck, and his father needed him to help at the drugstore. For six years Hubert dispensed prescriptions and vaccinated hogs. Hard times confirmed him in the fundamentalist liberal faith from which he would rarely deviate in the years ahead. But even the darkest periods were usually sunny for Hubert. He met a hometown girl, Muriel Buck, at a dance, and she began eating lunch at the Humphrey drugstore. The pair were married and eventually had four children. Always quietly...
...look back: the Fundamentalist contingent is in hot pursuit. The conscientious scholarship of a Leakey notwithstanding, there are millions of people who still pray that any truth of evolution will not become generally known or believed...
...their mores and lifestyle, the Afrikaners?particularly in the countryside?are as authentically tribal in outlook as Zulus living in a homeland kraal. Afrikaner society is a rigid one, held together by language (Dutch-based), faith (a fundamentalist form of Calvinism) and a sense of special mission created by their hard history. Even in the large cities, Afrikaners tend to mix uneasily with English-speaking whites. In the country, they are a law and a people unto themselves. The family structure is strong and disciplined; Afrikaner youth are far less likely than their Anglo counterparts to smoke or drink. Sunday...