Word: religion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Frankly, other things you point out about Carter such as his almost total humorlessness, his iron will and his rigidity are the terrifying elements in his character. I prefer religion...
...semipublic corporation that derives most of its revenues from viewer license fees, is looking for a production partner to help finance the series. In Britain, the BBC provides a complete range of TV programming-news, sports, music, religion, commentary and light entertainment. But the BBC shows that have found their way to the U.S. and turned a tidy profit for the corporation have been mainly polished dramas and documentaries, such as The Forsythe Saga, Elizabeth R. with Glenda Jackson, The Six Wives of Henry VIII, Jacob Bronowski's The Ascent of Man and Alistair Cooke's America...
...Government for a vast array of services and would surely not tolerate reductions in many of them. Often they desire still more-nationwide health insurance, for example, and federally financed jobs. Moreover, Hubert Humphrey, who has spent a generation as a disciple of the big-spending New Deal religion, retains a wide following. Ted Kennedy, another Washington fixture, might have had the Democratic nomination if he wanted...
Jimmy Carter is the fellow whose unabashed, if not totally strict Evangelicalism brought this all up. Is he exploiting his religion to gather delegates? Or is there some deeper national yearning that is moving people toward him as the first to express so openly his spirituality...
...skeptics, Carter's language often sounds like a pious façade. That, decidedly, is not the case. To Carter, his religion has always been a central and natural part of his life?"like breathing," as he says. Like many Southerners, he finds no contradiction in mixing an earthy appreciation of the good, secular life with the harder demands of Evangelicalism. But while religion has always been an integral part of his makeup, he dates his life as a spiritually reborn Christian only from...