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...television set and, after experiencing spiritual relief, mail off $10 to an evangelist. Some people who disapprove of this may be spending ten times that amount for time with a therapist or counseling group, with results not necessarily more satisfying. Religious people of various kinds may feel insulted if Robertson's belief is ridiculed. There are many products of Christian schools reading sophisticated defenses of their position, books like C.S. Lewis' Miracles: A Preliminary Study...
...That Robertson's organizing triumph is a secular technique based on his communications empire, with its carefully refined computer lists. Actually, Robertson's secular savvy is overrated. He talks often about Yale law school but not about the bar exam he flunked. He boasts of his business skills, though he was taken in by a con woman who promised him the Hunt family's inheritance. He bred vipers in his bosom called Tammy Faye and Jim. Like John $ Kennedy, he had a phantom experience with a London university that eerily grew in later resumes. His principal books were written "with...
...Second Coming, which Robertson has said will be televised worldwide by satellite, had occurred on the night after the Michigan caucuses, his principal organizer, R. Marc Nuttle, would have missed it, because, after carefully adjusting the outsize earphones to his pocket-size television set, he found that the batteries were dead. Craning over Nuttle's shoulder in the staff van was Connie Snapp, the "communications director" of the campaign, who had tried to bring her candidate into Michigan and leave the traveling press behind (a maneuver so foolish that the staff man with the candidate disregarded it). What slickness...
...Thus Robertson's foes must be careful about overkill. Calling him an Ayatullah points to a truth not intended -- that religion is a powerful national force, not only in exotic places but also in their own familiar country. Americans need to become more attuned to their country's desires before concluding that today's moral crisis is easily handled with secular expertise. Pat Robertson's practiced intimacy, his instant if shallow friendliness, may frighten some. But it reassures others exactly because he is not theatrical or compelling (as, say, an earlier televangelist, Fulton Sheen, was). That breathy and winking chuckle...
After thrashing George Bush in Iowa, Bob Dole suddenly has the aura of a champion. -- Two natural adversaries, Michael Dukakis and Richard Gephardt, are in a fight for the soul of the Democratic Party. --Pat Robertson leads a moral revolt that other politicians ignore at their peril, says Essayist Garry Wills. -- Two killings in Los Angeles raise issues of race and class bias...