Word: revivalistic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life dominated by gnawing fears and nagging frustrations. As a child, Luther had watched his father destroy himself after learning of his wife's infidelity. As a man, he had found joy neither in his scraggly wife nor his children, one of them an idiot. Only in revivalist religion did he find any outlet for his cramped, unexercised emotions...
CASE BREAK SOON. As if to balance this gruesome fare, the Post's two Page One pictures that day were of a Catholic bishop and of Revivalist Billy Graham (TIME, March 20), now on a tour of New England...
...Puff Graham." Thirty-one-year-old Billy Graham has been preaching ever since he was converted 14 years ago at a revival meeting in his home town, Charlotte, N.C. He became a revivalist only five years ago, and his big break did not come until last fall in California. His Los Angeles audiences were no more than moderately large until his activities suddenly attracted the attention of William Randolph Hearst. At a meeting one evening, says Graham, he noticed "reporters and cameramen crawling all over the place. One of them told me they had had a memo from Mr. Hearst...
Babbitt & King Bolo. Professor George Santayana taught him philosophy and Professor Irving Babbitt, the ardent revivalist of the classic past, taught him French literature, got him interested in Sanskrit and Oriental religions (Eliot later devoted two years to their study). Bertrand Russell taught him logic and later introduced him to the London literary world as his "best pupil." Eliot breezed through his course in three years, spent the fourth year working for his M.A. But he was no bookworm. Although he was shy, he made a point of going to dances and parties: Poet Conrad Aiken, a fellow student, recalls...