Word: fanaticize
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Religious Hotbed. What brings out the fanatic in some Iranians these days is the Shah's "White Revolution," so called because he hopes to implement it without bloodshed. In a desperate effort to bring his country into the 20th century, the Shah has worked to introduce 1) land reform...
Major Dundee. On his own initiative, the fanatic U.S. Cavalry major recruits thieves, drunkards, and Confederate prisoners for a punitive mission against a band of Apaches who have kidnaped three children. Why? "I intend to smite the wicked," he declares.
At first the castle seems safe behind the lines, and the most warlike objective of the soldiers is to drink up the wine cellars and conquer the village whorehouse. The enlisted men fraternize with a stray German patrol. The nobleman, crafty and impotent, pursues his plan to get his wife...
Sir: Your cartoon depicts a crowd haranguer and a fanatic, and shows nothing of the Christian sensibilities and calm self-restraint that have made him a Nobel Peace Prizewinner and an effective leader. M. D. BLUE
Thus this action melodrama, based on an actual incident, pretends to concern itself with a moral problem: whether to save the masterworks or spare the men. It must have seemed a dull question to Director John Frankenheimer, who simply shunts morality onnto a siding and concentrates on the conflict between...