Word: religion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hostile hypocrites of the press and Congress have "got religion" about political campaigns a little too late to make them credible. An equal application of the law requires that this Republican President be judged by no harsher standards than were his Democratic predecessors...
HEMPHILL announces his biases at the outset of The Good Old Boys: He believes, probably correctly, that the South as a distinct and different part of America is dying, and that his job is to chronicle what's left of it. He writes about sports, failure, country music, religion and small-town life but for the most part avoids sounding like he's spouting the standard Southern cliches. His subject matter is "Real Southy" enough to warm any New York magazine editor's heart, to be sure, but Hemphill consistently succeeds at writing with a deep and genuine feeling...
Cobden put the argument at its sunniest: "If the minority are discontented with the existing state of things, let them set to work and exert themselves until they become the majority." Fine, unless a minority is of a different race, religion or culture, and has no hope of be coming a majority. Then there must either be continual friction, as in Northern Ireland or Cyprus, or else a guarantee of protected minority rights that a majority cannot overturn. John C. Calhoun believed the South to be such a permanent minority in need of protection. So he argued for a "concurrent...
...generalities, the tone and thrust of the President's talk proved that despite his politically successful fling with the easy-money, deficit-spending ways of Keynesian economics, he has returned with some relief to that "oldtime religion," with its emphasis on gradualism, balanced budgets and monetary restraint. Yet the message is not likely to dispel the public's thickening gloom about the economy...
...Sistine frescoes, fill the Vatican Museum. But this lofty tradition of patronage ebbed away, and by 1900 most official religious art was stranded in a sludge of gaudy plaster piety. With the exception of the gloomy Georges Rouault, not one significant modern artist has built his imagery round doctrinal religion and its themes. There were some fitful bouts of church patronage: Matisse's chapel at Vence, Corbusier's at Ronchamp. But on the whole, the old symbiosis was dead...