Word: protestantitis
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Too many words can make a stone of the heart, Language becomes harried, tense, abusive, combative. There is no business like the business of perpetuating business, which now even trades on-cynicism and malaise, feeds on the very psychological damage it inflicts. Protestant, capitalist America has made a desert of...
But these 20,000 meant business. Good Protestant-ethic phrase there. One of the "Wake Up" leaders at the microphone addressed us. "Will the crowd please move to my right," he requested. I shuddered at the thought.
Since last summer's bloody rioting in Londonderry and Belfast, the Unionist Party government of Prime Minister Major James Chichester-Clark has belatedly pressed for the reforms in voting and housing long demanded by Northern Ireland's 500,000 Catholics, who are outnumbered 2 to 1 by Protestants...
Given a fair test, the reforms might have reduced tension. Instead, they alarmed many Protestants. In an atmosphere of growing anger, Paisley warned voters: "You cannot talk peace until the enemy surrenders, and the enemy is the Catholic Church." The predominantly Protestant constituency of Bannside, northwest of Belfast, gave him...
What worries Ulster's moderates is that Paisley's election might lead eventually to the fall of Chichester-Clark's government in favor of a hard-line Protestant group. Certainly, that is one of Paisley's goals. "I'll make it so hot for the...