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Picture that guy who lived on the second floor of Pennypacker--the savior who typed your 10-page Expos papers and helped you with marginal utility curves and the trickle-down effect...
...become a powerful, confident and important force. Popularly associated with stern opposition to such personal "sins" as drinking, smoking and gambling, Fundamentalism draws upon the entire heritage of American revivalism, with its code of personal piety and insistence upon conscious commitment to Jesus Christ as one's "personal Savior...
...professor jointly in women's studies and another discipline, it has yet to snag any topflight scholar. Last spring Harvard lost renowned feminist literary critic Elaine Showalter to Princeton, which has demonstrated its commitment to the field. Apparently the committee has become bogged down, holding out for a savior both to fill this single chair and to double as an administrator who will generate an entire women's studies program--an absurdly unrealistic expectation...
...broad cultural frame, Vietnam became the quintessential proving ground of these myths. America's will, its ability to meet its destiny as the world's savior Vietnam was five thousand miles away from San Francisco, but we had to be as willing and able to fight Evil (a.k.a. "Communism") in that remote land as we were in Europe. Vietnam was also the place where the efficacy of America's technological omnipotence would be conclusively demonstrated to the world. The thirty years of American involvement in Vietnam proved both those concepts false, Baritz includes, though for many they endure...
...barrier to the once declared intention of Mugabe and ZANU to turn Zimbabwe into a one- party socialist state. But now Nkomo, ensconced in Matabeleland, his tribal home in the western part of the country, increasingly appears to many of his countrymen as more of a nuisance than the savior of Zimbabwe. There are several reasons for this, among them the fact that Zimbawe has begun to prosper economically. Also, Mugabe continues to court the country's influential white farmers, and he appears to be backing away from his autocratic aims...