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Word: fanaticism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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That record was his first brush with the big time, but Joel hardly had the chance to settle back. His albums after Piano Man sold well, but not excitingly. His audience was not expanding appreciably beyond a loyal band of fanatic followers located mostly in the Northeast, possibly because his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Brash Ballad of Billy Joel | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

On one subject, Miller's views are not only clear but almost fanatic: he is an aggressive nonsmoker. He has peppered Textron's office with NO SMOKING signs and banned tobacco at management meetings and aboard the company's aircraft. After eight years of Arthur Burns'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Miller: Nice Guy in a Hard Job | 1/9/1978 | See Source »

One Palestinian organization, the Syrian-backed Saiqa, has put out a contract on Sadat's life. If he were assassinated, either by a random fanatic or a committed rejectionist, Egypt might well be ruled by a military leftist more attuned to the radical Arab message. But for the moment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Goodbye, Arab Solidarity | 12/12/1977 | See Source »

Indeed, while California produces six of every ten bottles of table wine consumed in the U.S., and has doubled its production in a decade, wineries in every other grape-growing state command a fanatic following-even for the vintages that can be admired only for pricey presumptuousness. Experts believe that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Shaking California's Throne | 11/21/1977 | See Source »

The Japanese Red Army. A fanatic, radical leftist movement whose cloudy ideology is part Mao, part Trotskyite permanent revolution, part Che Guevarism. Merged from a number of loosely knit radical groups, the Red Army has only about 40 active members but has been involved in terrorist exploits in Europe and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The Tightening Links of Terrorism | 10/31/1977 | See Source »

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