Word: religionists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...resists the temptation to slip him into the New Left cubbyhole and looks beneath the superficialities of speech and manner, Ferber comes forth as a complex, contradictory blend of the pragmatist and idealist, religionist and radical idealogue. His belief in non-violence is firm. His sense of perspective and grasp of social realities make him an exceptional even atypical, member of the New Left. If the government jails him, he just may have the entire prison organized before he leaves...
...this word usually connotes. It is not what I sometimes have called the magazine concept of religion-even the TIME concept of religion-namely, religion as one of the cultural functions of man's spirit reported, for instance, between economy and sports, considered as the job of the "religionist"-the most anti-religious word in the English language. Religion as the experience of the vertical line is effective in every creative work, in artistic as well as scientific, in ethical as well as in political, in technical as well as in economic creations, and even in the power...
Arkansas politics are an engaging mixture of Old South primitivism and self-conscious moderation. One of these elements usually prevails in given area: the agricultural east ("the Delta") is mainly religionist and extreme right wing, while the west and the area around Little Rock is more liberal...
...Pennsylvania Democrats gave Jack Kennedy a handsome 173,000 write-in votes, three times the combined totals of all other candidates. But Pennsylvania's Democratic Governor David Lawrence, a Roman Catholic who doubts Co-Religionist Kennedy's chances, pooh-poohed the performance, kept a tight rein on the state's 81 convention votes...