Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even with a blue-ribbon candidate and a more expertly managed campaign, the G.O.P. would probably have fared little better. Daley is an autocrat, a Democrat and a bureaucrat in that order, and handles all three roles with zeal and efficiency. Though skeptics might reverse his slogan-"Good government is good politics"-King Richard has made it work well enough to satisfy the "big mules" of Chicago's power structure. Nudged by the nation's most formidable political machine, the city's rank-and-file voters agreed...
...find that the Washington Post had published the text of Lippmann's remarks at the party-a wry goodbye to Washington and a few observations on U.S. foreign policy. "The dignity of the occasion," Bartlett huffily told Post Managing Editor Ben Bradlee, "was marred by your professional zeal." With that, Bradlee and the Post's editor, Russ Wiggins, got huffy themselves and resigned from the club. All of which left Lippmann bewildered, since he had given the Post permission to print his talk in the first place...
...write more traffic tickets and exceed their informal quotas (based on anticipated crime) in making "field interrogations" and misdemeanor arrests. Civil rights leaders argue that police sometimes overexercise their discretionary powers by hitting minority groups for marginal offenses. In slum areas, critics claim, such zeal is often self-defeating: for the poor, unpaid traffic tickets and minor arrests lead to more arrests, lost jobs-and more crime in order to pay the bills...
...have quite enough churches as it is, clergymen of other faiths question the need for the mission, but laymen are more open-minded. So far, there have been only two formal conversions, but Pounders happily reports that several others are "on the verge." What attracts converts is the activist zeal of the transplanted missionaries. Says High School Teacher Janet Saine, who joined the Church of Christ in Somerville, N.J.: "I was looking for a church and this one seemed to be the only one that was doing anything. There is a corporate life here; it's not just...
...STAR-SPANGLED GIRL, by Neil Simon, makes The Odd Couple a threesome. A pair of post-Ivy League rebels (Anthony Perkins and Richard Benjamin) publish a protest magazine with virtuously impoverished zeal until a girl (Connie Stevens) shows up to curdle their joy. The gags come in two varieties: Simon-pure and simple Simon...