Word: fanaticism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The Society boasts 200 alums (all past varsity, junior varsity, and freshman goalies are eligible for membership) and 20 honorary members, including Dean Rosovsky, a hockey fanatic. About 70 members show up for the Society's meeting and dinner each year.
Perhaps such significant shading is one reason why Le Monde's Middle East veteran, Eric Rouleau, reflects that U.S. journalism got trapped in clichés about "the progressive Shah" beset by "fanatic religionists." But when it comes to nationalism, how about the French? They allowed Ayatullah Khomeini a...
AS CAREFULLY AS HE has molded Ellello*u out of fiery words and fanatic ideas, Updike has created a supporting cast of splendid variety. Ellello*u's foppish political opponents, his wispy and wisely degenerate king, his seductive and bitchy and monstrous wives, all create an atmosphere of debauched craziness...
Azhari maintained that the Shah retained the support of the "silent people," the majority of his countrymen. The truth, however, is that much of the Shah's support has evaporated, except among the military, the well-to-do and the peasants. The country is staggering under a burden of...
These frustrations were accompanied, in late 1961, by a kind of vision of a nuclear holocaust destroying Indianapolis. Having read a magazine article listing a selection of the best places in the world to avoid an atomic war, Jones took his wife and three children to one of them, Belo...