Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Khomeini's voice would certainly be heard, since his words and his impressive organization have kept a revolution aflame. At once simple and complex, that organization made impressive use of tape recorders and telephones to disseminate a political message suffused with an ancient spirituality. From the start of his exile in Turkey and Iraq in 1964, Khomeini laid the groundwork for the revolution in talks with his students. Taped cassettes carried his messages back to the mosques in Iran, and to Iranian student organizations around the world...
...Hazzard, a misbegotten rip-off of Smokey and the Bandit. The questions are relaxed, the answers as washed as California light. Finally, Ginny Weissman, editor of the Chicago Tribune's weekly television guide, has had enough. "I thought your show was in very bad taste," she says. "I kept wondering, why is it necessary to spit on the windshield? Why so much tobacco juice? Why such high sexual content? The camera seemed to focus a lot on men's behinds...
More than showmanship will be needed to strip away the cocoon of regulations that has kept the trucking industry insulated from competition. Kennedy's bill, which will be followed by one being drafted by the Carter Administration, is only one step in that campaign, a key part of the Administration's anti-inflation drive. Many regulations will have to be torn down by their creator, the once lethargic Interstate Commerce Commission...
...their cages and watching them fly up into the air." His own birds wing off in a hundred different directions. Writing of life in general, he notes: "We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure." On belief: "Religions are kept alive by heresies, which are really sudden explosions of faith. Dead religions do not produce them." And, "Miracles are like jokes. They relieve our tension suddenly by setting us free from the chain of cause and effect." Love receives a whole chapter. "When the coin is tossed, either Love or Lust...
...forms of politics and statesmanship. Religion became, in both senses of the word, immaterial. Science and religion were apples and oranges. So the pact said: render unto apples the things that are Caesar's, and unto oranges the things that are God's. Just as the Maya kept two calendars, one profane and one priestly, so Western science and religion fell into two different conceptions of the universe, two different vocabularies...