Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...today's white, the question is not, "What can I do?" but "What does the Negro want me to do?" It may stick in many white throats. To ask it is to demand an investment of conscience far beyond the mere missionary zeal to ease the black man's load. One example of this approach is the Committee for the Understanding of Racial Attitudes, formed by students at New York's Union Theological Seminary. CURA's declared purpose is to educate not blacks but whites. "We want to show," says Prudence Milite, "that what happened...
...Competitive zeal and junior gamesmanship and grantsmanship become their equipment for survival and success in the academic marketplace...
...pronounce you children of the new age." Shortly after we hear it, we see a candle-light procession approaching. The bride is carrying roses. She hands them to me and I pass them inside. The demonstration peaks for me as I touch the roses--I am stoned on revolutionary zeal. The newlyweds call themselves Mr. and Mrs. Fayerweather...
...claim some 100,000 members on U.S. campuses; the Young Republicans, 150,000. The conservative Young Americans for Freedom has 25,000; the radical leftist Students for a Democratic Society is much smaller-5,500 members-but more influential. What it lacks in size, the S.D.S. makes up in zeal and ability to play the press for headlines. Typically, the S.D.S. has only 60 active members among 4,700 students at Princeton, but it is the biggest partisan organization on campus, and one of its highly committed members was elected chairman of the undergraduate assembly last week. An underlying principle...
...stripped-down flat, a cell of Maoist incendiaries gather to plan the decline and fall of practically everybody. The short-wave radio blares a ceaseless stream of news from Radio Peking; quotes from the Chairman are read with the stentorian zeal of the newly converted; lectures propound dialectical doublethink ("A revolutionary party carries out a policy whenever it takes an action. If it's not a correct policy, it's a wrong...