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...mayoralcy passed to Francis H. Duehay '55, another city councillor, and Alfred W. LaRosa was elected to fill the remainder of Russell's city council term...
...know Sidney Verba: University Professor, University Librarian, and former assistant dean of the College. Well, now there is a new title for Sid Verba: one of the "Tweediest Professors" in the nation. According to M Magazine, Verba is among eight scholars who clothing most typifies the term "Tweedy...
...prominence of Fundamentalism has only added to the confusion about just how the movement should be defined. The term is often used to designate fervent belief of any kind, or confused with a more moderate version of biblical conservatism known as Evangelicalism. Indeed, the two movements are intertwined, but also constitute distinct elements in American conservative Protestantism. Essentially, Fundamentalism is the right wing of the broader and larger Evangelical movement, which has grown by millions of adherents in the past two decades...
...recounted by Historian George Marsden in his definitive 1980 study, Fundamentalism and American Culture, many of the conservatives turned into angry militants during the cultural upheavals following World War I. The term Fundamentalist was coined in this period to identify a battler for orthodoxy. Presbyterian Evangelist Billy Sunday typified the new ornery style of combat. The liberal, Sunday fulminated, was a "hog-jowled, weasel-eyed, sponge- columned, jelly-spined, pussyfooting, four-flushing, charlotte-russed Christian." At the 1925 Scopes trial, in which a Tennessee schoolteacher was convicted of expounding evolutionary theory, Fundamentalists were ridiculed by the press and perceived...
...Unification Church; after serving 13 months of an 18-month sentence for his 1982 conviction on charges of income tax evasion, the last six weeks of which he spent in an inmate rehabilitation center; in Brooklyn. At a Washington dinner in his honor last week, Moon described his prison term as providing "a moving experience with God. I was not there because of my personal actions or mistakes, yet I did not brood with resentment or hatred...