Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...death came as a tragic finale to an American drama fraught with classic hints of inevitability. Propelled to fame in the throes of the Negro's mid-century revolution, he gave it momentum and steered it toward nonviolence. Yet the movement he served with such elo quence and zeal was beginning to pass him by, and nonviolence to many black militants had come to seem naive, outmoded, even suicidal...
...Roman Empire. To be sure, the Christian burden in the future will be different from that of the past: less to proclaim Jesus by word than to follow him in deed and loving service. It may prove a perilous course, but the opportunity is great: the courage and zeal of that first despised minority changed the history of the world...
...fact, if zeal and dedication in the revolutionary leaders were all that it took to start an actual uprising, then the shining example of the Vietnamese would long ago have prompted revolutions in every corner of Asia, Latin America and Africa...
...foreseeable. The real point is that he goes to his death with pride in his blackness and with no regard for what in him is owed to inherited whiteness. That touch is convincing enough, but not the narrative style ("When first Sidney saw Beauty Beast come walking with buoyant zeal, flesh of her nature lay scorched again"). There is something wildly outdated about such plantation-patented prose...
...will be referred to hospitals and clinics. Sterling expects that at least a third of his clients will use PARDON as a "halfway house" to ease their transition to secular life-but the rest, he hopes, may be able to return to the ministry with a renewed sense of zeal...