Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ideal for the student who is less anxious to be right than he is to avoid being wrong, whose desire for truth subserves his dread of being thought foolish. In his efforts to elude being caught in a ridiculous posture, he avoids positive commitment if possible. Religous zeal and patriotism are examples of attitudes missing or rare at Harvard, the epithet "pious" provokes dension, and the term "all-American" would only be used in a perjorative sense...
...Veritas Foundation itself, its zeal seems ill-considered. The informal suggestion from one of the committee members last year that a filtering committee be established to prevent any future appointments of communists, or whomever is adjudged objectionable, is of course pernicious. Appointments to the faculty are amply reviewed as it is, and a watchdog committee would quickly extend its baleful influence. The Veritas Foundation, which considers that Harvard graduates at present are taught by a predominantly "leftist" faculty, would presumably try to correct this imbalance. Any such attempt would jeopardize the freedom this University has maintained for its faculty members...
...coliseum trials" were the first sign that the new leader's zeal might have exceeded the bounds of necessity. On his own initiative, Castro called these "showcase" tribunals into action--and while popular pressure may have demanded the executions which preceded and followed them, the only excuse for the trials themselves was to make an international case for the executions. The most significant result was to increase the frenzy of a citizenry already enraged by the memory of past horrors...
...that one of his four closest friends and associates is a secret enemy of the state and must be ferreted out. Comrade Nemeth must choose between 1) his best friend. 2) his fiancee-mistress. 3) a religious-minded old spinster. 4) a battle-scarred party veteran. Feverish with party zeal. Nemeth first fingers the religious old lady as a "reactionary clericalist...
...zeal, charity and genuine love of people" and his "noble thoughts against racial antipathy and creedal strife," the influential English-language weekly Jewish Advocate (circ. 30,000) tabbed as its man-of-the-year Boston's lanky, brisk Richard Cardinal Gushing...