Word: fanaticism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Fanatics are moved to voluble (though sometimes static) excitement, by the inadequacies of marriage. In their effort to derive a suitable substitute, three acts of energetic controversy are consumed. Then, with the intention of giving trial marriage a totally unnecessary trial, the stage lovers, who 20 years ago would...
Tears stood in the eyes of Rupprecht, now an aging, disappointed man. "My heart bleeds," he said, "as I see how under the rule of the Republic the beautiful structure of the past is being demolished, piece by piece. . . . The new rulers, animated by a fanatic hate, without understanding of...
Zealous, he has ordered that in school hours they must all wear shirts as black as his. Fanatic, he commanded last week that every day they shall recite three new commandments, brief, pagan and patriotic.
Now many a Fundamentalist can irk men of reason by simply opposing steadfast faith to inquisitive logic. But Dr. Straton's dogma is not merely steadfast; it is wild and violent. His answers to reasonable inquiry would irritate a St. Francis of Assisi. Dr. Witherspoon Dodge of Atlanta, mild-mannered...
"This is the picture of an empire air route program upon which I ask for your advice and cooperation. I do not believe that I am either a fanatic or a visionary in asking your support for these schemes. If they prove successful they may give a physical unity to...