Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Malan's greatest political asset, aside from his religious zeal, was his ability to provide scapegoats for the Boers' depression troubles. "Rich Jews," he said, "make poor whites." So do poor blacks. "The Negro does not need a house," said Malan. "He can sleep under a tree. So he can work for less pay than the white man. The Negro has a job while the white man walks the streets foodless and workless...
...influence in his own work. Norris populates his world with shy, baffled citizens, harried housewives, fiercely determined children. He lampoons everything from Canada's first native-born Governor General and the laws against colored margarine to Colonel Blimpism at the Club. Typically, his prize-winning drawing spoofs the zeal of the Canadian Mounties searching for smuggled American cigarettes...
This week Reinold von Thadden, 60, was in the U.S. for a month-long lecture tour sponsored by the National Council of Churches. He brought evidence of revived Christian zeal among German laymen. The German Evangelical (Protestant) Church Congress-the Kirchentag-which Thadden founded 2½ years ago, has become the strongest organization of Protestant laymen in Europe. More than 300,000, from Eastern as well as Western Germany, attended its Berlin rally last summer (TIME, July 23). "The layman," Thadden told a Chicago audience last week, "is ... in fact the essential interpreter of the Christian message in the battlefield...
Urbane and good-humored for all his zeal, Father LaFarge shies away from the title of crusader. The "one-track crusader," he concedes, has his place. He would rather be a "reasoned optimist." Says John LaFarge: "The world, as I see it, is a vast and agonizing school in the science of human unity. No all-inclusive program can be bulled through, but innumerable detailed and specific approaches can be made. Our mistake is neglecting the possible in our despair over the impossible. That, as St. Thomas Aquinas would say, is against the virtue of practical reason...
There was one difference, however: this time, their spleen was justified. Nevertheless, in their zeal to protest the incident, they have condemned the entire student body, and the adverse publicity has left the public feeling that Harvard undergraduates condone cross-burning as a good joke...