Word: fanaticism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The "we" refers to "the terrorist group FC." While refusing to specify the size of the group "for security reasons," the writer describes its members as "anarchist" and "radical environmentalist." Investigators, however, believe FC is merely the invention of a lone fanatic.
"It was absolutely incredible just to see so many people," said Jennifer Stephen '98. "You don't need to be a politician, or a fanatic, or an intellectual, you just need to care about women."
I feed it and cultivate it, for better for better or for worse. I am accountable for my actions. I am twenty-one, and I am a fanatic letter writer.
Those, the prosecution may well suggest, would be 30 years of indoctrination, during which a shy, impressionable four-year-old might plausibly turn into a 34-year-old fanatic. But "might" is a key word, and the skeptics are many.
Within the orphanage's word of fanatic discipline and smothered cries, the scenes between Lavin and Kevin stand as the most disturbing and complex moments in the film. When Kevin responds to Lavin's caresses by saying "You are not my mother," Lavin erupts into a volcanic fury. He has...