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...clearly evidenced in his daily schedule. The best-known and most solicited religion scholar working the lecture circuit, he daily receives half a dozen invitations to talk, and schedules one out-of-town appearance a week. He preaches at least once a month in various houses of worship, mainly in the area around suburban Riverside, Ill., where he lives with his second wife Harriet, a voice coach. Ever quotable, he is constantly sought by reporters looking for quick bursts of wisdom on subjects ranging from Pat Robertson's presidential campaign to baby boomers. Marty writes a column for the Christian...
Perhaps a nine-digit fine would convince Morton-Thiokol and other contractors to temper their worship of divine Profit with some common sense...
...frame into a 30-ft. by 60- ft. dress. And she tops off the reckless excess with phantasmagoric headgear that looks like a co-creation by Medusa and Dr. Seuss. Proclaims Jones: "The audience sees me as a larger-than-life image they can worship -- like a hero." So there. And Liberace, babe, eat your heart...
...their hopes rise for a resurgence in national leadership. As if Roosevelt's ghost had sponsored him, Historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., a biographer of F.D.R., showed up in Washington to extol his new book, The Cycles of American History, and offer his own resonant warnings that the "worship of party" could swallow up the purposes. "One wishes that the ^ intellectual energy expended in recent years on procedural reform had been devoted instead to the substance of our problems," wrote Schlesinger. "Nor are substantive problems going to be solved by large committees with two representatives from every state. Ideas...
...often let his hopes overwhelm his head, like when he insisted that inflation could be subdued, terrorists apprehended and punished, the tax system reformed. Yes, he missed on some big ones, like that crazy budget formula that has given us scary deficits. But throughout all of this, those who worship process were incredulous. Reagan never understood what he could...