Word: southern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many American Jews had deep misgivings initially about Carter, a Southern Baptist with few ties to the Jewish community. He stilled doubts by asserting that Israel should maintain control of the Golan Heights and Jewish and Christian places of worship in Jerusalem. He also pledged to continue military aid, and he promised to wage an "economic war" against the Arab states if they imposed another oil embargo...
...tracing the origins of the President's views, the same historian described him as a middle-class Southern boy who had deep religious feeling, a romantic view of knowledge and intense ambition. Once he had wept when he listened to a Communion hymn. He read Scripture and prayed daily. The President was convinced that God was accessible, both through prayer and in His revealed word, which provided both strength and comfort. He also found occasion, said the his torian, to interpret as the Lord's will convictions that other men attributed to less remote sources, and to find...
...found our way back to our own principles and values"). So did some press conference remarks last week ("I think there is a general sense in the world we had better get our own houses in order"). Also, a fortnight ago, Carter called a White House meeting of ten Southern Baptist leaders to plan global missionary strategy, a rare blending of presidential aura with a religious program...
...Actor-Director Dennis Hopper, which ended in 1969. As for Hopper's creative activities of late, he was sitting for a portrait by a longtime friend, Artist Andy Warhol, and working on a screenplay of a William Burroughs novel, Junkie. His collaborator on the screenplay is Satirist Terry Southern, who is also collaborating with Hopper on his autobiography. His life with Brooke, says Hopper, 41, will be no more than a "peripheral part" of the work...
Eudora Welty's work, following in the tradition of Flannery O'Connor and William Faulkner, is based on her perception of a distinctive Southern character, enduring despite massive changes in the social structure of the South...