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...Majority" faction. "I'm afraid I'm not a very tolerant person," he says--his letters fulminate against what he terms the hypocrisy of preachers like Moral Majority leader Jerry Falwell. And Ratliff is one adversary that knows his Scripture: "To right wing evangelicals, Jesus says, 'You call me Lord but do not the things I command...
...adultery, prince of peace--he is not for another round in the thermonuclear race to Armageddon, favors merciful abortion to prevent a tide of the unwanted from filling welfare rolls, prison cells and death rows to the electric chair. To right wing evangelicals Jesus says, "You call me Lord but do not the things I command you." Henry Ratliff...
...cherry whole place - not the Redskins or the cherry blossoms - but but the most of the rest, especially the Federal Government, that great marble engine of the democracy. Nor are Washingtonians consoled by the fact that the candidates have been merely speaking for the country at large. Lord, how the nation hates Washington. Ask any Texan or Vermonter or whomever, and he will chew your ear off about that godless pile on the Potomac, that lobby-choked mausoleum, that fat, besotted . . . and you can throw in tasteless while you're at it. And dull...
...people have to worry about. Ben Flesh, the hero of The Franchiser (1976), learns in Rapid City, S. Dak., that he has multiple sclerosis. He worries about this and the effect of a current heat wave on his local business: "The Mister Softees are all melted. The Lord has beaten the Mister Softees back into yogurt cultures." And Elkin has been traveling progressively farther out; The Living End (1979) offers a knee-slapping look at death and eternal damnation...
...myths of society perpetuate the inequality between men and women in relationships. The ideal romance has been well defined. Lord Byron, anachronistically, described the scene so familiar in Bogart, Dean, Bond and other movies...