Word: prays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...With the decline of a sacred world view and the political and cultural ascendance of corporate liberalism we note the erosion of an integrated normative world view. Thus "the growing mass of stupidity and indifference" at Harvard becomes more comprehensible. For the time being, however, let us pray and then begin the debate
...writes as himself and also assumes the persona of a reporter assigned to a story about him. Pete uses this format to extemporize about his daily life, and says, "In spurts I answer fan mail and business letters, play snooker, strum my guitar into a cassette machine, pray for forgiveness and think about what a total mess I've made of a life that had everything, and everyone, going...
...gets close to Falwell except his family, Wife Macel, Sons Jerry Jr., 23, and Jonathan, 18, and Daughter Jeannie, 21. During periods of crisis in the church, associates have asked Falwell whether he wishes any particular prayers said for him, but he politely brushes them off. Instead, he urges, pray that the money keeps coming in. Though he takes a salary of only $49,500, the church provides him with a lovely 150-year-old home and use of the jet. Curiously, for all his pugnacity, Falwell has trouble confronting problems among his 2,200 employees. People who rile...
...Conwell replied, "There is an abrupt change of attitude and very sincere difference in the way the people who are holding us now behave, relate to us and treat us, and I am told that they are indeed a different group of people. I have faith in that. I pray to God that that's correct...
...editorial-cartoon plutocrat, chose the name because "if you know which way north is you can't get lost." The firm moved into a converted church and rectory in Berkeley in January 1980. The quarters were chosen, says the founder, "because we knew we would have to pray...