Word: fundamentalistism
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...board session, Yale in a prayer asked his opponents to resign. Says Goshorn with a cherubic smile: "They probably thought Burt had flipped out." In fact, Noorda, four outside directors and six of the company's top ten salesmen-some of them Jews upset by the stress on fundamentalist Christianity -quickly departed, shattering morale at the plant. Since then Goshorn and Yale have been in full control, but their piety has yet to bring the company any material reward. General Automation, which lost about $4 million in fiscal 1975, v. a $4 million profit in fiscal 1974, has seen...
...Torah, biblical criticism cut to the heart of Jewish tradition. A modern Orthodox scholar like Rabbi Norman Lamm of Manhattan's Yeshiva University still supports Mosaic authorship of the Torah because "it is a dogmatic necessity." But Lamm, like most Orthodox Jews, allows much more latitude than fundamentalist Christians in understanding Genesis accounts. "Certainly the creation text is not literal," says Lamm. He is also not concerned, for instance, whether Noah and his family were the sole survivors of the biblical flood. What is important about Noah's story, he explains, "is the moral teaching that man's actions have...
This stiffly worded revision of an earlier, neglected version has become a Fundamentalist favorite. Accused of slightly falsifying the text to make the Bible appear more accurate...
...stick of dynamite tossed through a window of the Midway Elementary School on Campbells Creek Road at 3:30 one morning last week, and it caused only about $1,500 worth of damage. But the explosion, plus a renewed school boycott and a desperate trip to Washington by a fundamentalist delegation, all served notice that the textbook trouble in Kanawha County, W. Va., will be around for some time...
...forces urged a new boycott at the start of the week, and persuaded 28% of the county's 45,200 pupils to stay out of school; it was the most effective boycott since early September, when striking coal miners joined in the anti-book demonstrations. Ezra Graley, a fundamentalist minister who has already spent eleven days in jail for his book-banning activities, promised more. "The protests will definitely continue until the books are out for good...