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...Roberts home" unless by March 31 believers came up with $4.5 million for missionary work. Many Christians, including some Roberts followers, were scandalized by what they perceived to be implicit spiritual blackmail. The Bakker-Roberts furor raised questions about the future of TV evangelism, a fast-growing, klieg-lighted mode of Christian proselytizing -- and fund raising. Counting radio, the gospel broadcasters' total receipts probably approach $2 billion a year. To critics as well as concerned believers, the industry often seems more concerned with bucks than Bibles, and with the personality cults more than the spirit of Christ. Captivated...
...question is not whether Reagan can recover. The nation is beginning to look beyond Reagan now. Any President in the last half of his second term is already in the valedictory mode. The Iran affair simply hastened the process and abruptly concentrated the nation's mind. The 1988 election is coalescing. The parties are sorting out candidates and issues. There are signs of a fundamental change in the nation's political weather, a philosophical mood shift like those that seem to occur in America every generation...
John Gardner did ride around on a motorcycle--in fact, he died when one he was riding crashed in 1982--and this mode of transportation may help explain why Gardner was never fully accepted by the academic and critical circles of his time. Some critics, citing Gardner's talent for characterizing the physical detail and philosophical outlook of Middle America, classed this medievalist-turned-author among the top American writers of the 20th century. Many others, however, found that beneath a flashy surface humour and topicality, Gardner's works lacked the depth of Ulysses or The Magic Mountain...
Other students also relate anecdotes about their becoming accustomed to a different lifestyle. Vittimberga recalls an incident where he adapted to the Polynesian mode of operations. "My host mother asked me to get the bananas off the tree, so I climbed the tree and started hacking them off, but all these ants began crawling over me," he recalls. "Then she came out laughing hysterically, and told me that I was supposed to chop the tree down, then pick the bananas...
Reagan defended the "management style" that the Tower board cited as a key reason for the White House crisis, saying it was a mode of leadership that served him well as California Governor and for most of his presidency. While he conceded that his style "didn't match its previous track record" in the Iran-contra affair, he made no serious promise to reform his ways...