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They just call themselves Christians. Others at Harvard, like those who practice different religions, or who consider themselves Christians of a more conventional kind, might call them a "Born Again" or fundamentalist group. They have been "born again" because most of them feel they have been spiritually renewed by accepting Christ into their hearts. Their fundamentalism comes with a highly literal reading of the Bible, an unusual belief in a secular, scientific community such as Harvard. These Christians, who tend to group around the Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Fellowship (HRCF), often say they would use the term "born again," a phrase...
...scruffy worldliness and its distinct throb from straight below the waist. His first appearances were small Pop cataclysms. The sensuous movements that headline writers called "gyrations" and that earned Presley nicknames he did not like-Swivel Hips, the Pelvis-had their roots in roistering responses of some fundamentalist congregations...
...ominous oddities after he joined the Army in 1971. He flunked his first rifle-shooting test but eventually qualified as an infantry sharpshooter (the middle ranking between marksman and expert) with the M-16 rifle. Early in his Army service, for unknown reasons, he left Judaism to become a fundamentalist Baptist after attending hand-clapping revival meetings...
...terrorist tactics of West Germany's Baader-Meinhof gang with something akin to the perverted zeal of Charles Manson's spiritual slaves. The society, which believes in repentance for sin and retreat from the evils of the modern world, is far more extreme than even the archconservative, fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood. The movement is bitterly opposed to the government of President Anwar Sadat, which has supposedly corrupted the purity of Islam by, among other things, expanding the role of women in public life...
...conservative, middle-class neighborhoods, in fundamentalist communities and in the family-oriented Cuban sections, Bryant and her legions pressed their fight in more graphic terms. She told a gathering of Cubans, "It would break my heart if Miami would become another Sodom and Gomorrah and you would have to leave again." Full-page newspaper ads bought by the association suggested that an epidemic of child pornography might result if the voters approved the ordinance...