Word: fundamentalistic
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There is, of course, another way to become an editorialist. It involves avoiding the extremes--religious, but not fundamentalist; atheist, but not arrogant; liberal, but not bleeding heart; conservative, but not reactionary...
Step One: Choose sides. At Harvard, there are more or less two voices in the editorial dialogue--the fanatically conservative and the self-righteously liberal. If you plan to be the former, make sure you live up to the titles homophobe, fundamentalist and sexist. If you plan to be the latter, make sure you can spell and pronounce the words homophobe, fundamentalist and sexist; these will most likely constitute a good part of your vocabulary...
...Camp Shelter, where Delia, Catherine and sisters Lenny and Alma explore a wilderness that mirrors their own sexual stirrings and confusion. The woods are dark, deep and haunted by both Christian and pagan spirits. A character named Parson flits in and out of Phillips' story as a sort of Fundamentalist avenger. Nature comes guileless in the person of Buddy, a knowing child of the forest, and Nature comes sinister in the form of Buddy's father Carmody, a backwoods pervert who would not have been out of place in James Dickey's Deliverance...
...several questions in my mind after finishing this short letter. First, who was this woman? Probably some crazy fundamentalist, a paranoid and overly religious Filipino woman who knew nothing of exalted educational institutions like Harvard...
...that I had to the strange letter from my mother's friend. But if you haven't been filled with the liberal platitudes, if you're still capable of thinking for yourself at the end of your Harvard experience, you will understand that I wasn't a crazy, paranoid fundamentalist...