Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...civic reformer was older now, with thinning hair, but he had lost none of his bounce. His was still the challenger's zeal as he confronted the voters of the State of Louisiana and announced that he in tended to run for governor. "The people have told me from one end of Louisiana to the other," said Mayor deLesseps ("Chep"). Morrison of New Orleans, "that they want a new face, that they seek capable, energetic leadership...
...first Sardinian ever to become Premier of Italy, scholarly Antonio Segni made his reputation as Minister of Agriculture under the late Alcide de Gasperi. In his zeal for land reform, he once expropriated a quarter of his own estate and compensated his wife, to whom some of the land originally belonged, with a bottle of perfume. Straightforward, witty and courteous, Segni is more at home in the classroom or the law court than in the back rooms of Italian politics. He is not a robust man, yet, in the drawn-out bargaining and bickering process that constitutes Cabinetmaking in Italy...
...that year in Auschwitz' deadly shower rooms were 52 members of the family of Malchiel Greenwald. Malchiel himself managed to escape, found his way to Palestine, and cast his lot and his hopes for the future with the Irgun Zwei Leumi, the party that fought with the fiercest zeal against the British for Israel nationalism. But uppermost in Malchiel's mind was the fate that had befallen his relatives in Hungary. A bent, grief-stricken man in his 70s, he set himself the task of finding out who had betrayed them. Last year, after poring through mountains...
...convention of his colleagues, Clarence Schoenfeld, a public-relations man for the University of Wisconsin, issued a blunt warning: "I have the uneasy feeling that so-called 'public relations' practices are muzzling and muffling our colleges. We have set out with great zeal to make friends and influence the public, and in so doing we have not only persuaded our professors to be more discreet, we have drugged these same professors into absolute silence . . . It may be quite true that our universities are quiet today because they have been intimidated . . . It is my personal conviction, however, that...
Hollywood's top production bosses solemnly testified that movies could not realistically exclude' sex and violence, but far from inspiring juvenile crime, films often combatted it by portraying its ugly consequences, thus arousing public zeal for reform. MGM's Dore Schary argued that his Blackboard Jungle, condemned by Critic Mooring, did not "accelerate" delinquency but "insulated" against it. The family itself, testified Paramount's Y. Frank Freeman, is delinquency's chief hotbed, and "an old-fashioned hickory stick" is the remedy. Taken to task for the violence dished out in Warner's unreleased juvenile...