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...A lot of Yuppie Papas The other guest on the show was Margaret Mead, who drivel about the joys of "parenting" and "actualizing didn't treat Omar Sharif s view very respectfully...

...Eventually, something will have to give...

...ble, absolute...

...After their potential...

...I mean, I've had time to get born, become educated, get measles...

...And PAT ROBERTSON is a God-hearing, tongues-speaking, the integrity of his faith allows no room for compromise...

...moving determinedly into the mainstream, propelled by strong GOP primaries political views that are founded on specific and uncompromisI ing religious convictions...

...For the whole story you need a reliable narrator...

...Although Margaret Mead took the wind out of Omar's sails, the bridge question still nagged me over the years: why couldn't a woman give birth, educate the young, tend the sick, maintain civilization, and score an occasional grand slam...

...He is also a very successful entrepreneur, a well-educated, If the "give" won't come from Robertson, neither will it attractive, and articulate man with a large, ready-made televi- come from his supporters in the conservative Christian Right...

...We now have two little girls, aged one month I T'S NOT TRUE that raising children saps all your en- and almost three years...

...He said, "The reason women aren't report that two adults, working flat-out, full-time, can just any good at bridge is that they aren't logical...

...listen to Dire Straits - and still run Commonweal: 392...

...important things to do than play silly games...

...MEAD: Oh -- give birth, educate dhe young, tend the sick, and maintain civilization...

...Talk about a Role Model and a Renaissance NURSERY SCREAMS Man' PRISONERS OF CIRCUMSTANCE Sharing the business of giving birth, educating the young, tending the sick, and maintaining civilization in my house has given me new insight into The Bridge Question...

...tional visibility and respectability (especially the latter...

...His authority among his "followers" depends to a very great extent on the integrity of his faith...

...I for one have had the time to make a great your second kid is born, you're not really parents, you're a scientific discovery: I now know why more women couple with a child...

...He is miracle-believing, dominion-taking, prosperity- defined by convictions whose foundation is eternal, unassailaclaiming, demon-binding, born-again biblical literalist...

...Placed in a national context, Robertson's beliefs can be seen in their real social and POLITICAL IMMERSION political proportions - proportions that appear strikingly ROBERTSON TESTS THE WATERS small...

...ity...

...He made the After a full month of really being a parent I am here to point very forcefully...

...or, God forbid, more) can you really call yourself "parI've wondered about that ever since I saw Omar Sharif ents...

...It can't be Robertson...

...He is now Robertson poses a triple threat: (1) should Pat Robertson run a marathon...

...These, in turn, have existed historically outside the Christian mainstream...

...It's nice to hear that they like to change she stopped laughing she said the reason more women diapers and bathe their kids...

...But that's not the whole aren't grand master bridge players is, "They have more story...

...To Robertson may be more than his religious convictions and view most religious broadcasting is to see countless forms of practices, but he certainly is no less...

...I agree with Bill Cosby that until ergy...

...Conservative Christians share with liberals the notion that Pat Robertson is first and last a religious figure...

...The They are unlikely to quiet down voluntarily, having disgreat mistake of political analysts is to assume that the second covered, in their own numbers and financial resources, naof the above characterizations has any real bearing on the first...

...Only when you are taking care of two haven't become grand master bridge players...

...make the point on the Dick Cavett Show...

...sion "constituency" and an enormous amount of money...

...Trump...

...about cope with two children...

...Sharif, not just another pretty face but a bridge player, took umbrage and asked what women do that is so important...

...Somehow I knew Margaret Mead wasn't going to say, "their make-up...

...At a given point he what can only be called an aggressive longing for respectabilbecomes irreducible...