Word: fanaticized
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Sir: Your Essay "How America Drinks" [Dec. 29] was enlightening and encouraging to me as a nondrinker of the dry Baptist tradition, and a pastor at that. However, I'd like to be assured that "the average American knows how to handle his liquor" and his powerful car on...
With Nagasaki flattened by an A-bomb (code-named "Fat Man"), Emperor Hirohito gathered his ministers in an underground shelter and asked them to sue for peace. Such intervention by the Emperor was extraordinary, and, since Hirohito was believed to be divine, his request was also presumably a commandment from...
The first exhibition fills two rooms with works by the eccentric Japanese painter Soga Shohaku (1730-1781). A fiercely independent man, Shohaku was considered a fanatic by his contemporaries. Trying to revive the no longer fashionable 15th century monochrome tradition, he preceded 20th century action painters. His brush-work, like...
Perched on the hood of a police car and surrounded by ten club-swinging bodyguards, the bouffant-haired Black Power fanatic harangued a crowd of more than 1,000 with his customary oxymoronic oratory, advising his listeners that the U.S. has 13 concentration camps where it plans to put Negroes...
Call for Peace. The new leaders are the mayors and politicians who remained in their posts when the Israelis marched in. Where Shukairy had been fanatic, they are pragmatic. Where Shukairy had depended on other Arab states to "drive the Israelis into the sea," the new men call for a...