Word: fanaticize
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Finally, it's here. March 1, 1979. The date that has been tucked away in the back of every East Coast swimming fanatic's mind since the beginning of the training season in October.
The Society boasts 200 alums (all past varsity, junior varsity, and freshman goalies are eligible for membership) and 20 honorary members, including Dean Rosovsky, a hockey fanatic. About 70 members show up for the Society's meeting and dinner each year.
The cultural bias appeared in subtle ways throughout the news columns of magazines and dailies. Islam and its prescriptions proved most difficult for editors to swallow. Particularly during the fall, press reports in this country regularly juxtaposed the image of a progressive, modernizing Shah with intransigent religious fanatics whose opposition...
Some editorials made the American impression even more clear. The San Fransisco Chronicle, asking what kind of government Iran could possibly have lacking the Shah concluded that "it would be hard to convince us that any modern state as large and economically advanced as Iran could conceivably be ruled successfully...
Perhaps such significant shading is one reason why Le Monde's Middle East veteran, Eric Rouleau, reflects that U.S. journalism got trapped in clichés about "the progressive Shah" beset by "fanatic religionists." But when it comes to nationalism, how about the French? They allowed Ayatullah Khomeini a...