Word: fanaticism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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At the same time, politics has been frequently contaminated by the law of celebrity. It works two ways. According to Andy Warhol's dictum that "in the future, everybody will be famous for at least 15 minutes," overexposure or premature adulation tends to burn up talent too quickly; the public...
So far, the harshest critic of Sadat's pro-American policies is neighboring Libya and its President, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Last week Egyptian-Libyan relations hit a new low when Cairo implied that Gaddafi-a Moslem zealot who fancies himself Nasser's heir as the champion of the...
She returns to the Jew her grandfather wanted her to marry, a fanatic who wakes her to roll in the snow with him for penance. At last, dying, despairing, wondering about "the Apostates who denied God, considering the world a random combination of atoms," Akhsa rips open her pillowcase and...
An Englishman who met Casement in Chicago, during an American tour to raise funds against Britain described him as "a fanatic of the type of Mazzini ... great in the beginning of Italy's risorgimento, and so greatly mistaken in the end." His Irish American host in New York said...
I.F. Stone's Weekly is crammed with devices of simultaneity simply because there are so many dimensions to the journalist's style and achievement. But the force of personality in Jerry Bruck's crisp, clear documentary is very simple: Stone is a kind of fanatic, a crazyman--squinting out at...