Word: fanaticize
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Concerning the term "monk barbecue show," Viet Nam is a strange country where people often commit spectacular suicides before the gates of people whom they wish to curse. I find that custom barbaric. My aim was to try to stop the spreading of bad examples by ridiculing what I considered...
Waiting in the wings are the young and middle-aged party leaders-pragmatic technicians rather than fanatic dogmatists-who have been frustrated during the years of Old Guard rule. Mao and the veterans of the Long March have suffered few deaths. But a series of state funerals is obviously and...
Tam's suicide and the Saigon trial served once again to stoke South Viet Nam's smoldering religious and political crisis. Last month Buddhist Monk Thich Quang Due burned himself to death on a Saigon street corner in protest against restrictions imposed on the country's 12...
A full-dress summit session of 81 Communist parties in Moscow in November 1960 produced a statement (adopted unanimously, of course) that merely lumped together these diametrically opposed opinions. Then last fall, the Red Chinese invasion of India only served to justify Khrushchev's view that Mao was a...
Locked Briefcases. Kong Le is a magnet for some of the most idealistic men in Laos. Short (5 ft. 1 in., 115 Ibs.), quiet and good-natured, he neither drinks, smokes nor gambles and is fanatic about health, honesty and cleanliness. He shares common Laotian superstitions, such as wearing a...