Word: fanaticism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Oral Roberts University, founded a few years ago by evangelist Oral Roberts--a basketball fanatic--joined the major college division of the NCAA just this year, and its basketball team has climbed into the nation's top twenty teams with a 22-1 record.
Golden's advice to long-suffering wives is patience. "Let your husband have his fling," he says. "Tolerate his withdrawal." After the football season is over, Golden reasons, the avid male viewer will return to his family-provided he is not a fanatic for basketball or hockey.
Universal Malady. The three short stories involved here, Defender of the Faith, Epstein and Eli, the Fanatic, have been faithfully adapted by Larry Arrick from the original late '50s texts. Indeed, he might have been better advised to put the evening together as a reading, since the interpolated narrative...
Unitarian Solution. The last story, Eli, the Fanatic, borders on mysticism. Its chief characters are a lawyer in a Brooks Brothers suit (Michael Tolan), his very pregnant wife (Rose Arrick), a Talmudic scholar (Lou Jacob!) and the scholar's helper (David Ackroyd). The assistant is a bearded D.P. who...
It is from his parents that many a skyjacker wants to flee. Often as a child he alternately detested both his father, who may have been alcoholic and violent, and his mother, in many cases a religious fanatic. Characteristically, he sought sanctuary first with one and then with another, and...