Word: fundamentalistism
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...Military Fundamentalist. Toward the end of the war, Walker had become such an expert in the tactical management of armor that Patton considered creating an all-armored corps of three divisions and putting Walker in charge of it. "Johnnie" Walker's colleagues do not remember that he ever argued with anything Patton ever said, or, in fact, answered anything to a Patton order except "Yes, sir." A military fundamentalist, Walker believes wholeheartedly in the ancient military dictum that a man must learn to obey orders before he can give them. Of Patton's many commendations, Walker prized this...
...readers of the monthly Christian Life are no friends of show business. Drinking, smoking, dancing, card-playing and movies they consider the Devil's traps. Last week the July issue of their aggressively fundamentalist magazine brought them up short with an article called "The Truth about Hollywood...
...Forever Creative." Such views soon tagged him as a liberal: Fundamentalist William Jennings Bryan once unsuccessfully opposed Harkness' appointment to a high office in the Presbyterian General Assembly as "a dangerous heretic." But Dr. Harkness revels in his unorthodoxy. With his wife he is planning a book to be titled The Confessions of Two Conscientious Hypocrites. Said he recently: "I don't think anyone can give you a religion ... I think anyone's religion, to be real and workable, has to be self-originating, forever creative. The church is merely a tool to be used-first...
Graham calls himself "Dr." on the strength of two honorary degrees-a D.D. from King's College at New Castle, Del. and a D. Hum. from Fundamentalist, unaccredited Bob Jones University at Greenville, S.C. He also holds an A.B. from straitlaced Wheaton College, where he majored in Physical and Cultural Anthropology. Currently he is paid $8,500 a year as president of Northwestern Schools at Minneapolis, Minn., where he spends about a fifth of his time...
Almost anywhere else, a ceremonial kiss is part of every high-school queen's inaugural. But not in Bethany, Okla. Most of its 2,600 citizens are Nazarenes, members of a strict sect close to the fundamentalist Methodists, who consider public kissing sinful, along with beer halls, smoking, and women in shorts. Last week, when 16-year-old Basketball King Riddell Riggs defiantly kissed 16-year-old Queen Charlotte McClain before an applauding crowd of students, the incident touched off a near civil...