Word: movements
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...have political events lifted spirits. The 1986 Senate elections were disastrous for the Moral Majority's preferred candidates. Last month's defeat of Robert Bork, an ideal Supreme Court nominee from the movement's standpoint, further suggested a loss of clout. As for issues like abortion and school prayer, Moral Majority spent millions "without achieving one piece of legislation," observes Evangelical Theologian Carl F.H. Henry. Fundamentalists this year also lost three significant court cases dealing with curriculum grievances against public schools...
Meanwhile, the presidential campaign of Pat Robertson makes him the movement's new "undisputed leader," in the estimation of Political Analyst Kevin Phillips, who adds, "That's what he's running for." Robertson would dispute that. He calculates that winning the Republican nomination is "almost a done deal," in the words of an aide. A more plausible scenario, considering Robertson's stupendous negative ratings in some polls, is that he could capture just enough delegate strength to be a power broker between George Bush and Robert Dole...
Robertson's ascendancy and the Religious Right's new grass-roots savvy only partly answer the question of where the movement will go, however. The end of the Falwell era should inspire a sweeping re-examination of the way conservative Christians separate church and state. As it happens, one vision is already being forcefully argued by Charles Colson, the Watergate felon turned prison evangelist, in his articulate new book Kingdoms in Conflict (Morrow/Zondervan; $15.95). Colson's criticisms of the Religious Right are especially noteworthy, coming as they do from a biblically conservative Southern Baptist who joins with the movement...
...greater good for the greater number." Even Falwell agrees that change is nigh. He has always enjoyed having the last word, and once more he has it: "Never again will there be a Ronald Reagan-Jerry Falwell dual view for the Religious Right. It is now a sophisticated movement with many leaders who are issues-oriented. Don't make the mistake of thinking that the Moral Majority is dead. It is no longer one person...
This novel marks another step in one of the most interesting careers in contemporary letters. It has taken a while for that shoe to drop. The Middle Ground, British Author Margaret Drabble's ninth novel, appeared in 1980 and underscored a process that had begun several books earlier: a movement away from the narrow, intense psychological portraits of her early fiction (A Summer Bird-Cage, The Garrick Year) toward panoramas of realistic characters placed in a recognizable society. Drabble's progress was retrograde, running against the modern notion that fiction should be deep and singular rather than broad and general...