Word: religion
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...This time the locus is the Lone Star State. Michener begins his tale in the early 16th century, when Tejas was unexplored Mexican wasteland. In the kilopage fictification that follows, events and personalities pass in review: the Alamo and the Battle of San Jacinto, Comanche raids, cattle drives, oil, religion, high school football, superpatriotism and real estate dodges. Much of this is fascinating, but it is propelled by a strange device: Michener imagines a committee appointed by a Texas Governor to investigate the state's history. Every time the story begins to gallop, accounts of the get-togethers slow...
...working as janitors, maids and dishwashers.) Others complain that Sanctuary is abetting Marxist movements by giving a platform to some left-wing refugees who want to denounce U.S. imperialism. The Rev. Richard Neuhaus, a Lutheran minister who is director of New York City's Center on Religion and Society, says of Sanctuary: "It's political theater...
...group's close ties to Yasser Arafat's P.L.O., which Syrian President Hafez Assad is determined to prevent from gaining a new foothold in Lebanon. In addition, in its bid to pacify Lebanon and strengthen President Amin Gemayel's authority, Syria wants to reduce the power of religion-based militias like Tawheed...
Because Joshua is so transparently hostile on the subject of religion and because it persists in taking itself too seriously, it must eternally be categorized as ethnic-schlock a brand tellingly dubbed shock-schlock With this variety, we are made, rather forced--for it is rammed down our throats--to feel the appalling "weirdness" of the ethnics in question...
...object was to capture the interest of the younger generation "since the youth were in general far more receptive to the rhythms of the market than their elders whose concerns were in general, more budgetary." In the process people's values gradually shifted from those generally associated with religion and family to self-expression through hedonistic consumption. These developments inspired the eclipse of a theocentric worldview, and a devaluation of qualities such as a communal solidarity, self-sacrifice and commitment to the future through marriage and nurturing of children...