Word: fanaticism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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But when later we evoke the 20th century, among the first names that will surge to mind will be that of a fanatic with a mustache who thought to reign by selling the soul of his people to the thousand demons of hate and of death.
--THE SO-WHAT TEST An effective counterfactual scenario should checkmate critics who argue that things would have worked out the same way anyway (e.g., if Hitler had perished in the muddy trenches, some other fanatic would have taken his place. Maybe, but most historians see Hitler as an extremist, even...
Yet far from being a Koran-thumping, bomb-toting fanatic, Abdul Koddus is a self-described Islamic liberal, a teddy bear of a man who denounces terrorism and sings the praises of some features of Western democracy. He avoids the austere robes that are de rigueur for bearded hard-liners...
The fanatic overprotection of women is fast making us an infantile nation. We need to treat sex with greater realism and imagination. Women should be taught not that they are passive wards of the state but that sex is a great human comedy where the joke is always on us...
Hall's second long-term lover, Una Troubridge, told her that she was the first fanatic she had ever met: "one who, if the need arose, would go to the pillory for the sake of her convictions." Troubridge was ominously prophetic: Hall was, publicly and privately, martyred for her cause...