Word: fanaticisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"My life I give for the freedom of my country," said the note carried in the pocketbook of ember-eyed Lolita Lebroón the bloody day last March when she and three henchmen of Puerto Rico's fanatic Nationalist Party sprayed the chamber of U.S. House of Representatives...
Now a fanatic new group has entered the fight, giving promise of real trouble.
Last week, after a six-month study of 31 jet aces and 62 of their less successful contemporaries, the Air Force's Psychologist E. Paul Torrance shed some light on the top MIG killers. The jet ace's outstanding characteristics: aggressiveness, self-confidence, an almost fanatic devotion to...
Christian de Castries, great field soldier, was scarcely a fanatic, nor were his hard-bitten French noncoms, or his Germans of the Foreign Legion, or his newly trained Vietnamese. All of these men, from the most widely disparate backgrounds, found-without fanaticism, brainwashing or Communist terror-as much of what the soldier needs as any Red ever showed. What they did not have-and the Communists do-is direction from above, the kind of direction that comes from the will to victory...
Besides these difficulties, Bard suffers from an unduly large faculty turnover, especially since many of its professors devote a goodly proportion of their time to professional work outside the field of teaching. Because of the effort required to teach a curriculum composed entirely of seminars, teachers find themselves hard-pressed...