Word: fanaticism
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...counter-espionage-combatting the activities of adversary spooks round the world. Victor Marchetti, the ex-CIA official who turned agency critic, said that colleagues regarded Angleton as "a gentleman, a connoisseur of fine wines, an intellectual who knew orchids, and a fanatic who was always able to keep his fanaticism in rein...
The New Testament remained a formidable challenge to the critics. At the beginning of the 20th century, liberal scholars were still trying to peel back layers of the miraculous and the mythical to find out what the historical Jesus really taught. The Jesus that some of the searchers found was...
The UNESCO discrimination against Israel, however, was in excusable. Some U.N. officials fear that the fanatic anti-Israel campaign could spread from UNESCO to other U.N. bodies, such as the Geneva-based World Health Organization and the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome. It is the Third World that...
Litsas says that "fanatic" gun supporters often display a "paranoid reaction" to any kind of effort at gun control. "They know that the handgun has no social purpose, that it's only made to kill," she says. "But people who are very much the sportsmen fear a reaction to guns...
Nor is the play's credibility helped by lines like, "Of course, that's only a symbol but we need symbols to protect us from ourselves. A fool destroys men but a fanatic destroys their hope."