Word: skepticism
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...preacher's skill at summoning up a supportive Bible verse. He recited the above words from Psalms 38: 12 during the second of two remarkable performances on ABC-TV's Nightline show, capping a soap opera-like, ten-week saga of money, power and sex that has transfixed skeptic and believer alike. Flanked by his moist-eyed wife Tammy Faye, Bakker informed Nightline Host Ted Koppel and his television audience -- the largest in the show's seven-year history -- that his lethal enemy was the Rev. Jerry Falwell, the televangelist to whom he had entrusted his scandal-stained PTL* ministry...
Brown, who had a science-engineering education, says he was once a skeptic but adds, "I reached a point where I couldn't deny it" after he had seen several friends demonstrate their psychic powers...
...sides of Reagan -- the sympathetic optimist and the skeptic who keeps a jaundiced watch on persistent Soviet malfeasance -- will engage in an inner debate if a summit and arms-control agreements become more likely. The side that prevails may determine the President's place in history...
...then we started getting more calls, and some of our own people started seeing it." On Aug. 19, after considerable level-headed cogitation -- "I'm a skeptic, O.K.?" Carl says. "I'm not a very religious person, but you can't let that affect your coverage" -- the editor decided to go with the story. His front-page banner headline: IMAGE OF CHRIST REPORTED WEST OF TOWN. "What many people have said appears to be an image of Christ can be seen just west of Fostoria . . . Those who have contacted or have been contacted by the Review Times say the image...
Inevitably, so long a working life entailed a certain amount of repetition; to the skeptic, the later Moore seemed to be running a one-man academy of stones and bones. "Less is more, and Moore is a bore" was what one heard from English art students hip to Anthony Caro and David Smith, and the sentiment was echoed by people who had forgotten, or not known, his stubborn efforts to get modernism a hearing among the art-hating English 30 years before. All that is over, but the sculpture remains. When the best of it has been winnowed out -- which...