Word: heathenism
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Although he has been indicted only once, Duryea has otherwise lived a model life for a Long Island Republican, bartering the long plodding years in the Albany legislature into the leadership of the state party, the speakership of the state assembly during the glorious years before the heathen Democrats took over in 1974, and finally, this year, the Republican gubernatorial nomination. People like him, and many will vote for him--some because he likes the death penalty, some because he favors tax reform, many because he just looks so much like a governor, a stately, silver-maned Millard Fillmore-clone...
...lost track of the guiding light, and the primary motive of their cause became a dream betrayed. Instead of civilizing men they kept them in cages of ignorance; instead of freeing their victims they enslaved them. The cross became the cross to crucify the Africans because he was a heathen. The African continent must have been a golden treasure to the colonialists. Africa had all the natural resources the colonialists needed--gold, iron ore, bauzite, diamonds, oil and many others; Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Portugal all needed a place in the sun, hence the partition of Africa. They created...
...Ignatius was not. Calculus class became a horror, and the slightest fudged quadratic would inspire the oak-desk routine. Then Ignatius began dropping hints muttering about how when he was a missionary they really had to discipline the heathens. I looked around and saw nothing but people stepping out to St. John's and Fordham for their admission interviews. With my faith shaken by memories of the last heathen Ignatius had to discipline--an unfortunate physics whiz who three years earlier had barely survived the fall-out when Ignatius heard he was on his way to Yale--I decided...
Horn Blowing. True fans need no convincing. They can read Five Seasons for remembrances of games, pennant races and World Series past, for another chance to think about their beloved sport under the tutelage of an expert. Yet Angell's passion for baseball is enough to convert the heathen. Millions of casual TV viewers saw Red Sox Catcher Carlton Fisk's extra-inning home run in the sixth game of the 1975 World Series. Angell's account goes beyond the heroics on the field. He imagines people all over New England receiving the news-"jumping...
...Corry shows the first triumphant flush of Irish-Catholic society, as Murray's innumerable children factored their father's millions into a family treasury that surpassed even the Kennedys', and then built a towering wall around their neat little world of well-monied Catholicism to keep out all the heathen WASPs they had learned both to envy and despise. But then it all turned sour. With a resigned air, Corry tells the sad story of how Murray's grandchildren finally broke the cozy circle, choosing to marry Fords and Vanderbilts and even a Greek shipping magnate whose name...