Word: fundamentalistism
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...righteous, formalistic fundamentalist," who emphasizes creed, ritual and tradition...
...missionaries, John Morrison Birch was born in Landour, India, May 28, 1918. He was raised in Macon, Ga., graduated from Mercer University (where he belonged to a group that raised unproven heresy charges against some of the professors), became a fundamentalist Baptist missionary in China. During World War II he joined a U.S. Army intelligence unit in China, served with the rank of captain. Ten days after the Japanese surrender in 1945, he was killed by a band of Chinese Communist guerrillas. Birch Society members regard him as the first victim of the cold war. Birch's parents...
...words on which he has been engaged for more than 30 years. These drawings and lithographs have a power firmly rooted in a kind of sophisticated innocence. Marc Chagall takes the Old Testament literally, so that his Jewish inspiration seems sometimes to have been handed over to an unreconstructed Fundamentalist for execution. These powerful drawings are sensuous (Ruth in the Fields looks like a belly dancer) and sometimes terrible (Joel Kills Sisera), but always steeped in a mythical vision that has become the signature of Chagall...
...that is as tough as he looks-and as tough as he himself once played. Back at Texas Christian they still remember one tackle made in 1932 by All-America Guard Vaught that left both the ball carrier and himself lying senseless on the field. "I'm a fundamentalist," Vaught says. "I believe in perfection of execution, in the blocking and tackling angles of the game." Signs spotted around his office spell out his football philosophy: "Put 'em on the ground...
Sharpest assault of all was being mounted by the National Association of Evangelicals, embracing 38 fundamentalist denominations with a claimed membership of 10 million. It has urged its member ministers-some 28,000 in all 50 states-to deliver anti-Catholic sermons on next week's Reformation Sunday, which commemorates the beginning of the Protestant Reformation in 1517. Tinny "campaign" buttons are being circulated, each bearing a gold cross and the inscription: 1517-Reformation Sunday, Oct. 30, 1960. Church members will be urged to wear them through Election Day as "simple and unobtrusive Protestant identification...