Word: sects
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Responsive Note. Four years ago, Barry Goldwater seemed little more than an attractive spokesman for a minority on the right edge of the G.O.P. Today, Goldwater stands not as the leader of a die hard sect but as one of the U.S. Republican Party's top two or three figures. Most G.O.P. strategists agree that if the party's national convention were held today, Goldwater would give both Richard Nixon and Nelson Rockefeller a run for their money-and maybe more. The reality behind the surge: Goldwater's unabashed, unapologetic conservatism has struck a responsive note...
...Awards. Elmer Gantry is the movie: and if it's more Eastman Color than scandolous revivalism, why no one cares overmuch. For, in truth, Elmer proves to be a very entertaining and lavishly constructed film. Burt Lancaster (who copped one of those towards) is a share hypocrite indeed at Sect Leader; and Jean Simmons and Shirley Jones (the other Award reciplent) are admirable as his womenfolk. Daily...
...education budget has gone up tenfold. Saud has donated at least ten of his 24 palaces for schools. At King Saud's Sons' Institute, inside the Naziriyah compound, children of slaves sit next to young princes. Risking the displeasure of the austere Wahabi sect of Islam, which believes that woman's place is in the harem and behind the veil, Tariki has put several thousand girls in school...
...These heretics are worse than the Saracens!" exclaimed Pope Innocent III, and on March 10, 1208, he proclaimed a crusade against a sect in southern France that became one of the bloodiest blots in European history...
...long-lived tradition of anticlericalism in southern France, which recruited the Huguenots in the 16th century and fueled Communism in the 20th, is finding a new outlet in a spreading bush fire of enthusiasm for the vanished sect whose 750-year-old lost cause against the church gave anticlericalism its biggest beachhead in France. Some 30 books have been published during the last 15 years about their beliefs and practices and their slaughterous persecution-most of them highly favorable to the heretics and critical of the church. Several plays have been written about them, and literary reviews have published long...