Word: fanaticisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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So much for temporal hell remembered. Stein's present haven is an institute established by an eccentric Cleveland widow persuaded that God was conceived in the desert by prophets who were themselves psychotics. As a fanatic inmate explains: "We were a nation, a nation that betrayed its God. And...
MERELY gaining effective control over China's 800 million people -a population twice the size of the British Empire at its zenith-was an epic achievement. But Mao Tse-tung's ambitions did not stop there. A few months after his conversation with Malraux, Mao launched the cataclysmic...
Author Jones plays it both ways. Hester is clearly wrong. Her code has produced a monster of a younger son-a clean-cut all-American fanatic. Until she sees him for what he is, until she finds herself allied only to despised rednecks, Hester has been a bit of a...
The greater tragedy, of course, is that the wanton shooting of police inevitably leads to more violence and even reprisals. Already New York and Washington police have beefed up their patrols in potentially dangerous areas. If the attacks continue, it is the innocent who stand to suffer for the crackdown...
In attempting to articulate fatuities, the cast pulls out all the glottal stops. Caine shuttles between Anglo-Saxon, German and Cockney. Oscarsson, a Swede, is absurdly fanatic, with energy and witches to burn. Sharif, the first Near Eastern Westphalian, has, as ever, the wettest eyes in Christendom. Yet it is...