Word: grahamism
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...issued a statement that "any and all allegations that I was involved in some ridiculous plot to oust the Speaker [are] completely false, and, in fact, ludicrous." But later when Armey stood up in a meeting of House Republicans and declared that the Hill story was inaccurate, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a rebel leader, lunged for a microphone to challenge the assertion--knocking over a chair before another member could restrain him. Later, Armey changed his story. To his utter surprise, sources close to him now claimed, he realized that several of his fellow leaders--in other words, Paxon...
...sort of a New Age Billy Graham who has wormed his way into the high councils of state as spiritual consultant to the President. He is played with a nice shiftiness--you really wouldn't want to trust this guy with a church-collection plate--by Matthew McConaughey. Yet director Robert Zemeckis lets him carry the movie's message. That is to say, Joss, not Ellie--bless her sternly rational soul--happens to be right; there is, just as he has so tiresomely predicted, a metaphysical dimension to deep space...
...Graham Greene often argued, innocence is like all other illusions, pleasant but dangerous. Children are not innocent. No one is innocent. Thinking that one is defies reality. Pyle, in Greene's The Quiet American, says innocents should wear little bells, like lepers, to warn others they are coming. He had in mind the Americans who thought we could succeed in Vietnam where the French, despite many years of knowledge about Indochinese culture, language and religion, had failed. That knowledge was Old World knowledge, compromising and corrupt. Like Jefferson Smith, we "did not pretend to know." But we brought clean hands...
Adam S. Hickey '99 is a Crimson editor living in Currier House. He is currently an intern with the Miami offices of Senator Robert D. Graham (D-FL) andthe American Civil Liberties Union of Floria...
...paranoid about space invasion; a presidential science adviser (Tom Skerritt) trying to shunt Ellie out of the loop as the government builds the shuttle (plans kindly provided by the aliens) needed to penetrate our newly defined outer limits; and Palmer Joss (Matthew McConaughey), a sort of New Age Billy Graham who has wormed his way into the high councils of state as spiritual consultant to the President. "Director Robert Zemeckis and his colleagues have been all over the press congratulating themselves on throwing an intellectually challenging movie into the summer maelstrom," says Schickel. "What this tells us about them...