Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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) who looks like a whipped-cream frappe shows up to curdle their joy. The gags come in two varieties: Simon-pure and simple Simon...
...quest for "visible government" by ranging the city day and night, turn ing up at fires and theater openings, dropping into police stations and art galleries, presiding at Waldorf banquets with bigwigs and at street-corner chaf-ferings with slum constituents. He has, in fact, an excess of both zeal and guts that has made him assault the city's gargantuan problems with reckless disregard for his own standing. In his many tilts with the city's plodding, 300,000-man bureaucracy and other reform-resistant interests, he has shattered many a lance. Yet his supply...
...these agitators, said Heyns, "are out to destroy the university," while some others "want to control it." "It's a kind of guerrilla warfare," said Governor Pat Brown. "Their whole attitude is conspiratorial. They don't want answers to problems-they just want problems." And in their zeal for "confrontation politics," the young revolutionaries vowed to fight again...
...already attacked with her customary zeal the problem of exactly duplicating French brioches using American ingredients. Her brother-in-law, Charles Child, recalls how she arrived at the family's summer home on Mount Desert, Me., for a two-week vacation with her regular traveling armory of knives, whisks, skillets, spoons and apron. But this time she also brought an array of bottles containing every conceivable kind of oil, except castor oil, plus half a dozen varieties of flour, six kinds of margarine, and sticks and sticks of butter. Then, for eight straight days, Julia did nothing but bake...
...Jack Savenor of United Service Super Market, tends to kiss her first, proudly keeps an autographed copy of her book on the meat-counter shelf so that his other customers can check ingredients.) But, trusting though she is, Julia also insists that women should know their steers. In her zeal to demonstrate the various cuts, she has no hesitation in using her own body along with the meat chart to get the point across...