Word: tireless
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...people in any field have demonstrated the power of a single impassioned voice as well as Peggy Charren. As head of Action for Children's Television, the activist group she founded 23 years ago in the living room of her suburban Boston home, Charren has been a tireless fighter for better children's TV. Because of her efforts, commercials aimed at kids are less manipulative than they once were; the hosts of children's shows, for example, can no longer hawk products to gullible young viewers. Even when she failed to bring about change, her constant, nagging presence...
Wagner was, in every sense, a man of his century. Besides being a composer, librettist and conductor, he was a tireless writer and proselytizer on subjects as disparate as revolutionary politics, vivisection and racialism. The little man from Leipzig was one of the leading anti-Semitic theorists of his day, venting his views in such pamphlets as Jewry in Music and Heroism and Christianity. Like other prominent anti-Semites, Wagner blamed the Jews for ) most of society's (and his own) ills and offered a solution. "Bear in mind," he exhorted Jews, "that there is but one redemption from...
...This year's package was produced by several dozen staffers, under the guidance of assistant managing editor Jim Kelly. Associate editor Priscilla Painton, who approaches every subject with tireless zeal, spent a month interviewing Ted Turner's family, friends and associates. "I discovered that there was something new to say about him," says Painton. "He is a changed man not just because he fell madly in love or because he got older, but because he made an emotionally strenuous effort to grow up. There are no trophies in his office commemorating this adventure, but it may be the most courageous...
...Pope Paul VI portrayed Mary as a "woman of strength who experienced poverty and suffering, flight and exile." John Paul II has said much the same thing, referring to Mary's "self-offering totality of love; the strength that is capable of bearing the greatest sorrows; limitless fidelity and tireless devotion to work...
...prevalence of homosexuality in the American population, namely R.T. Ross' Measures of the Sex Behavior of College Males as Compared to the Kinsey Reports (1950) and Masters and Johnson's Homosexuality in Perspective (1979). Given that these studies' results correlated precisely with Kinsey's, we wonder whether the "tireless" writer of this article was not a little eager in dismissing the 10 percent statistic. And given that, according to this statistic, 90 percent of the nation is straight (225 million people), we wonder whether, despite their protestations of benign tolerance, Peninsula writers do not intend any harm when they spuriously...