Word: pious
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...since it is composed, for the most part, of painfully familiar material. At the climax, the hero actually comes off the bench and wins the Big Game. Yes, this is a sports film, the subject being big-time college basketball. Yes, it demonstrates once again that amidst all the pious talk about amateur ideals, colleges pay off their stars under the table and exploit them just dreadfully. With that much of the banal plot laid out, it perhaps hardly needs to be added that the hero (Robby Benson, who wrote the script with his father, Jerry Segal) starts...
...Douglas is a 35-year-old American literature scholar with a provocative thesis. It is that U.S. mass consumer culture was born about 150 years ago in the pious alliance of middle-class women and the liberal Protestant clergy of the Northeast. Expansionist, masculine America was also getting started at this time but, argues the author, the period was one of intellectual and spiritual decline...
...conservative side but no literalist on such matters as Christ's miracles or the virgin birth. He became famous, however, through his 1963 bestseller, Honest to God, which set teacups rattling in many a rectory. Like America's Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike, he scandalized the pious by belittling "our images of God as a Being 'up there.' " His book also advocated what was called "the New Morality," rejecting absolute rules of right and wrong. After he resigned as Bishop of Woolwich and returned to Cambridge in 1969, Robinson wrote The Human Face of God, which...
...summer day in 1806 a band of pious students at Williams College got caught in a thundershower, huddled under a haystack to keep dry and held a prayer meeting. By the time the downpour ceased they had vowed to carry the Christian message overseas. One of them eventually became a pioneer evangelist to India while others helped create the U.S.'s first two foreign mission boards...
...Harvard administration's attempt to clear itself of any tie with Park range from pious vows of ignorance to outright justification: "We would just be left extremely ethical but completely broke." (John Fairbank, Crimson, Nov. 22). Harvard's record is clear: on the same side as Henry Kissinger, Daniel Moynihan and the National Security Agency. The KTA's grant may not, in fact, be for actual political or military research in the service of General Park. But if it is, it is hardly news in Harvard's long history as a bulwark of U.S. imperialism...