Word: enthusiast
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...progressive Catholic bimonthly The Critic, calls Catholic Pentecostalism "spiritual chic." Some who turn off may be expressing the natural and inevitable resentment of the passive believer against the ecstatic believer. In his magisterial study Enthusiasm, the late Catholic scholar Msgr. Ronald Knox described the attitude of the religious enthusiast toward the world at large: "He will have no weaker brethren who plod and stumble, who (if the truth must be told) would like to have a foot in either world, whose ambition is to qualify, not to excel. He has before his eyes a picture of the early Church, visibly...
Still committed to social change, Reich is now less confident about how to achieve it. His breakneck college career as head of Dartmouth student government, founder of a "free university," and five-state organizer for Eugene McCarthy's presidential campaign made him an enthusiast for personality politics. But life as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford's 700-year-old University College gave him his first serious look at democratic socialism, a system he thinks is inevitable for the U.S. It also gave him "more humility about what individuals can accomplish in a short period of time." On his return, Reich...
Much more interesting than Kaiser's theories is his portrait of Sirhan, the strange little Rosicrucian enthusiast who was adept at automatic writing and obsessed with buying a Mustang. For anyone who valued Robert Kennedy, it is impossibly sad to hear Sirhan telling Kaiser: "As far as for me to have satisfied myself with Kennedy, I think all I would have needed to do was just to give him a good punch in the nose at that Ambassador. I think that would have satisfied me." Lance Morrow
...Gordon. chairman of the Harvard College Fund, is a name for loyal alumni to take pride in. Gordon is a physical fitness enthusiast, chairman of one of Wall Street's most prestigious financial concerns, an Overseer of Harvard, and an ardent admirer of Erich Segal and President Nixon...
...many macrobiotics use the diet to become less aggressive and, above all, more spiritual. "It's not the food that is important so much. It is the understanding. Through your food you are trying to attain the order of the universe," says Jimmy Silver, a Hollywood macrobiotic enthusiast...