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...Ralph Reed may be the right hand of Pat Robertson, but I'll be damned if either one of them is the right hand of God." ROB JOHNSON Mount Vernon, Washington...
...whom had once supported former President Jimmy Carter-against Washington's perceived intrusiveness. The Moral Majority gained legitimacy, along with White House access, during the Reagan years, but Falwell neglected to build real foundations at the grass roots. So other groups were formed to fill the void, including Pat Robertson's Freedom Councils. After Robertson ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination for President in 1988, he converted his huge mailing lists into the Christian Coalition and turned its operations over to Reed, then 27. Reed sought to build the organization from the bottom up, making it largely community-based, with...
...second half of his speech, Specter discussed the role of the religious right in the Republican party, particularly the influence of former presidential candidates Patrick Buchanan and the Rev. Pat Robertson...
...that there are two kinds of great writers: those who reinvent themselves with every work and those who pound away at the same obsessions again and again with each new piece. If Robertson Davies qualifies--and his reception in the world of letters as a great writer has been growing steadily for the last twenty years--he certainly belongs in the second category. Davies' consistent fascinations structure his whole body of work. The same questions run throughout his fictions, linking them thematically and formally. His writing gives the sense of a larger architecture, as if there is one great story...
...marriages of science and religion, as well as literature and medicine, in keeping with the Canadian writer's synthetical, Platonic worldview, and Davies' long success at barking up the same trees is particularly easy to explain from the book: the man is a storyteller, and a fine one. Whether Robertson Davies is a great writer is a good question, but a better one is: does he tell a good story? The answer is quite clearly yes. He tells a good story and he tells it well, and we are the better...