Word: fanaticize
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The hero of Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood, a red-neck fanatic who plans to create "the Church Without Christ," is one of the most unlikely dullards ever to grumble through an American novel. The grandson of a fundamentalist preacher who was always harping on hell. Haze...
¶ Compound 602 held an elaborate funeral service for a Communist fanatic shot by a U.S. sergeant for resisting search. Shortly after dawn, a P.W. band using beer-can bugles, bamboo flutes and drums made of oilcans struck up an eerie cacophony. Twelve Chinese carrying flowers made of G.I. toilet...
This does not sound particularly oppressive so far. But due to the electronic perversity of IBM machines, notably those in University Hall, the grades which draft board officials use in determining a student's status do not appear until middle or late July. By then, the modern bicycle version of...
They lived to hate one another and call each other names ("Smuts," said Malan, "is a renegade." "Malan," said Smuts, "is a fanatic"). Yet when Jannie died in 1949, Danie put his head in his hands and wept like a child.
MICHAEL SCOTT is a clergyman of the Church of England. He is a man who has tried to "be absolutely logical about being a Christian, and to carry the logic into public life and politics. He has tried to practice such uncomfortable texts as "Thou shalt love thy neighbor." In...