Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first government and church authorities beamed on Dolci and his good works, but in time they began to find his excessive zeal embarrassing. Once he went on a hunger strike to force Palermo's government to do something about Trappeto's poor. He won: the government allotted him some $50,000 to begin an irrigation dam in a nearby valley to provide work and water for the local poor. But soon he found himself in trouble with landowners who claimed his dam would drain their own farms...
...quality denied to a work of art throughout the ages is privacy. Unless participation is allowed the spectator, it becomes a hopeless riddle and ceases to be any work of art at all ... What the new Academy of the Left has yet to realize is that in their fanatic zeal they have not achieved freedom of movement for the modern artist. They have merely substituted the rubber girdle for the whalebone corset...
...Search for Bridey Murphy, Author Bernstein has nothing new to say about hypnosis or reincarnation. But his amateur zeal, and perhaps the need for something to take the place of the slipping Power of Positive Thinking, has made his sessions with Ruth Simmons one of the fastest-selling books in the U.S. today. Already more than 70,000 copies have been printed, and another 100,000 are coming from the presses. The movies have picked up the book for a rumored $50,000, and 30 newspapers have taken it for serialization. As might have been expected, Bridey is doing best...
Average Catholic zeal, which A.I.M. undertakes to measure through the centuries as it does Vatican efficiency and temporal power (see chart), is higher today than it was 100 years ago, "but we believe it to be but half of what it was in the beginning...
...much obvious zeal once a position of influence has been attained...