Word: southern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Critics of Carter's human rights stance glibly trace his "basic principles and values" back to a Southern Baptist Sunday school outlook. Actually, such moral basics are common to all men of all times; they are found not only in the Bible but in Hindu, Egyptian, Chinese, Norse, Babylonian and Greek texts...
...urged his audiences to work for nonviolent solutions to racial problems: "Our African policy has grown out of sensitivity to the problems of blacks in the U.S. Blacks and whites in the South used to fight each other and both stayed poor. When we stopped, we got a Southern white President and a black ambassador...
Personally, Ray says he aims to keep his family life "average-despite the peculiar spelling of my last name." He lives in an unpretentious upper-middle-class house in North Dallas with his wife Nancy, who was a classmate at Southern Methodist University, and their four children, and drives a five-year-old Buick. Friends describe him as earnest and rather dull at parties. Politically, Hunt calls himself moderate, and by family standards he is. He has supported conservative candidates, but talks of the need for business and government to work together, a view that would have been anathema...
...warm August night in a southern Ontario town called Guelph, a dozen Americans are playing hockey. There are no commercial interruptions. There is no crowd...
This month End of the World will come to 200 Southern and Midwestern theaters. The film tells of an earthling scientist who comes upon a band of aliens cleverly disguised as six nuns and a priest. Filmed in three weeks, the picture cost $500,000 (compared with Star Wars'$9.5 million). If the world survives this picture, End Producer Charles Band plans to return by Christmas with another quickie titled Laser Blast...