Word: fanaticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though the wheezy little instrument was often inaudible, Mme Zalipsky pumped & played vigorously for nearly three hours, pausing only to adjust her glasses or steady her hat. Stagehands had left with the musicians so members of the cast were obliged to manipulate the curtains. Electricians went also, so there was...
Handsome, gentle-born Anita Whitney started life as a social worker, says she was turned to radicalism by the futility of charity as a method of ending misery. Because she was a charter member of California's Communist Labor Party, she was convicted in 1920 under the State'...
In his medieval chapters Author Kirstein makes much of the fanatic Dance of Death which he calls a tombstone to medieval mentality. It was at the time of plagues that Death appeared as "a graveyard ghoul, a chilling spectral horror . . . frightening now only to listeners of ghost stories or children...
Last week Robert Allerton Parker recounted the complex history of the Oneida Community in a biography of its founder, John Humphrey Noyes, shrewd, enlightened fanatic who expounded his theories of free love with passionate moral fervor. Carefully documented, A Yankee Saint is a mine of information on a significant development...
THE ANGEL OF THE ASSASSINATION? Joseph Shearing?Smith & Haas ($2.75). The French Revolution had already passed through its stages of exaltation, flowery speeches and grandiose proposals, when in the hot summer of 1793, Charlotte de Corday sat in a dim house in Caen, embroidering on a piece of silk the...