Word: fanaticize
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The two men begin living an uproarious travesty of a bad marriage, an astutely characterized study in incompatability. Matthau is a gruff, irresponsible slob, a sort of cigar-chomping depilated bear who shambles around in his ill-kept cave. A Friday night poker-playing crony judges Matthau by a Rorschach...
The Virtue of Terror. While Palmer is a meticulously honest historian incapable of suppressing any facts, he interprets them with some elasticity. He maintains, for instance, that Robespierre and John Adams were spiritual twins of the Enlightenment, that Adams in Robespierre's shoes might well have behaved as ruthlessly...
No Longer Monkeys. Amid all this mumbo jumbo, the real Lumumba has been almost forgotten. He was, of course, a violent, often eloquent anticolonialist, and an infectiously fanatic orator. At the 1960 independence ceremony, he seized the microphone to tell Belgium's King Baudouin that "from today, we are...
Sir: Your attempt to depict the actions of a small and fanatic group as expressive of Africa and Africans generally would, I suspect, have distressed Dr. Carlson himself. Similar tragedies have been enacted among many peoples and in many periods of history, and surely the point of Conrad's...
GOYA by Francisco Javier Sanchez Canton. 95 pages followed by 56 plates. Reynal. $100. Some of the double gatefold plates open out to more than 4 ft. in length. The typography is superb, the paper heavy. Each of the 193 reproductions was printed separately and with fanatic attention to accuracy...