Word: movement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...technique requirers strong legs and very little arm movement...
Some analysts see Falwell's PTL maneuver as a masterstroke to forge a new alliance between two Protestant forces that have had little to do with each other -- Fundamentalism and the Pentecostal-charisma tic movement. But during an appearance in Cocoa Beach, Fla., last week, Falwell said he had another reason for acting: "If Heritage Village were to go down the tubes, it would affect every Christian person in America...
Will the current furor weaken the evangelical movement, which has gained enormous impact and visibility over the past two decades? Sociologist James Davison Hunter of the University of Virginia thinks not. "It is very much a populist movement that derives its strength from the vision of reality it holds and an expansive set of institutions which sustain that vision," he observes. "The TV ministry is a small part of this. A visible part, but a small part...
...Billy Melvin, executive director of the National Association of Evangelicals, argues that his movement -- media portrayals to the contrary -- consists not of star preachers but of tens of thousands of churches across the country that "plug in, day in and day out." Perhaps last week's theatrics provide a useful reminder that the heart of Evangelicalism can never be found on the artificial "Main Street USA" of a theme park but only on the many real Main Streets, however simple and unglamorous, that traverse America...
...baseball player in the industrial North of the 1950s, a boom time that is passing this man by. Too old to make the move to the majors, too much a country boy to seek an education and get ahead, too embittered to believe in the hope the civil rights movement is beginning to offer, Garbage Man Troy Maxson is vividly particular, but, as intended, he reflects the tragedy of a generation...