Word: fanaticism
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My interest in this cult began after a close friend of mine became disturbingly fanatic about it and began spewing forth a most incredible stream of theories and arcane terminology. All of which are purportedly based upon painstaking "scientific" research. "Thus, along with science, Scientology can achieve positive invariable results...
In short, the structure of the play glosses over the basic problem in the material-how to put egomania on the stage. Rolfe obviously could emphathize only with his own person or with projections of his personality (the young alter ego George Arthur Rose and the Bishop of Caerleon). The...
Nowlan, a deep-dyed sci-fi fanatic, was not going to let any garbage about what the public would accept stand in the way of his imagination. When I began the book I expected to see the usual massculture view of the future world: the glory of the future American...
He is as healthy as a hound dog. He lifts weights, jogs, does pushups, plays squash on his lunch hour and likes to get out there with the kids and make like Joe Namath. Yet, in his prolonged obsession with physical prowess, the middle-age fitness fanatic may be exceptionally...
Small wonder, then, that back in 1959 Jaime ("Robbie") Robertson, then a 16-year-old from Toronto, set off eagerly for points south, guitar in hand. "I was born to do it, man," Robertson recalls. "Born to pack my bag and be on my way down the Mississippi River. I...