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...return. Now he merely points to such people, imperiously commanding them to sit down from a distance. Those occasions are now rare, however, and Price often drives in from his home across the river to say goodbye to audiences at the bottom of the grand staircase, like a preacher at the door of his church. "It's as if I'm saying 'Welcome to my congregation,' " he explains. "And it is my congregation...
...cautiously avoided Goldwater's mistake of coming on too strong. Instead of extremism, Reagan seemed to be telling the faithful, It is pragmatism that is no vice. At his request, the far-right spokesmen held down their rhetoric. Anti-ERA Leader Phyllis Schlafly was very quiet, unusually so. Fundamentalist Preacher Jerry Falwell, whose Moral Majority organization has registered 2 million new voters, made no ringing speeches. Even former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who is anathema to the extreme right, was welcomed with applause when he appeared on the podium. This time, said Pennsylvania's Thornburgh, the Republicans have...
...pastor began his nationwide Hour of Power on TV. "We were turning people away," he cried. So Architect Philip Johnson has built him a Crystal Cathedral of gleaming glass for $16 million, with seats for 3,000 and 90-ft.-high doors that swing open to reveal the preacher to pilgrims in autos. Says Schuller of his edifice: "Finally we have a church where the heavens can do their thing...
Stigler's lecture, "Economics or Ethics?: The Economist as Preacher," was the first of three Tanner Lectures on Human Values he will deliver at the Kennedy School this weekend...
...have read Games for the Superintelligent. You probably have seen him on one of those American Express "You don't recognize me, but you will when you see my name" commercials. Whatever your previous acquaintance with James F. "Jim" Fixx, you know he is America's best-known preacher of the gospel of running. He has presented the swelling ranks of runners with a sequel to The Complete Book of Running (which, he acknowledges in the foreword to Jim Fixx's Second Book of Running, may have been titled a touch presumptuously...