Word: sober
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Riencourt takes that outdated boast with deadly seriousness. Something deep in the character of the Puritan (an "iron-hard, practical, sober fanatic dedicated to hard work") ideally equips Americans to play 20th century Romans. When Puritan qualities are combined with the "innate and relentless expansionism" of the frontiersman, it becomes clear that "it was just not in [Americans'] dynamic temper to become the peaceful Swiss of the Western Hemisphere." Yet Americans, De Riencourt insists, have been "fundamentally reluctant" imperialists. They have not really played the game of colonialism, which he defines as an ephemeral grab for pseudo empire...
...Sober Guests. The I.C.C.C. has proved as durable as its founder. Its membership now includes some 140 denominations in 73 countries and colonies from Bolivia to Lebanon. All are relatively small, fundamentalist groups that have also broken with mainstream Protestant churches on the issue of membership in the World Council. The biggest U.S. member is the General Association of Regular Baptist Churches, which has 1,300 congregations and 180,000 worshipers. Mclntire spreads his gospel through a weekly paper, the Christian Beacon (circ. 120,000), and a Monday-Friday radio program broadcast over 635 stations. Mclntire and his co-crusaders...
...estate, including the two largest hotels and a complex of beachside houses and cottages. It now owns property there assessed at $1,500,000. The hotels are operated on a nonprofit basis. Hotelier Mclntire keeps his room rates modest (as low as $11 a day single) and his guests sober (neither hotel has a bar). His takeover in Cape May has provided a permanent headquarters for his religious movement, which he calls the Twentieth Century Reformation. A jowly six-footer with a shock of wavy hair greying at the temples and an impressive Roman nose, Mclntire oozes the polished grace...
Long, who lived in the duplex last week with his wife Diane, takes a much more sober view. "This thing will save a lot of marriages," he says. "Just knowing this was coming up has helped mine. My wife and I didn't know each other too well." For Arzaga, the problem was only slightly different. After four years in prison, he said, "My kids, they hardly remembered me. They wouldn't obey me. So I got mad. Later, my wife said they thought I was grouchy. I got to thinking about it, and maybe...
...London, does not try to resolve the contradictions in Henry's character so much as to make them comprehensible, balancing them against each other and putting them in their complex historical perspectives. This sounds unexciting-and it is. Scarisbrick's study is no swashbuckler, but a sober, patient amassing of significant details. For the nonspecialist it becomes tedious at times, as when Scarisbrick expounds canon law or traces a dense web of diplomatic maneuvering; but in the end it adds up to a monumental mosaic that has all the quiet authority of first-rate scholarship...