Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whose conversion total dropped from 146,212 in 1959 to 126,209 last year, ecumenism seems to be a major cause. Thanks to new hopes for the eventual union of Christianity, and to a new appreciation for the spiritual qualities of other faiths, Catholics appear to have lost their zeal to bring others into what they traditionally believe to be Christ's one true church. "Focusing their attention upon corporate reunion " says the Rev. John A. O'Brien of Notre Dame University's Bureau of Religious Research, "Catholics seem to have overlooked the importance and necessity...
...here." The most striking aspect of the Selma spirit is the consensus, expressed by Episcopal Rector Stephen Pressey of Shelby, Ohio, that "ministers are missing the boat if all they do is agitate." Instead of dreaming about bigger and better marches, church leaders appear to have returned with renewed zeal to tackle the major problems of the Negro in the North-education, housing and job opportunity. And, thanks to the astonishingly wide interfaith representation in Alabama-from conservative Lutheran to Orthodox Jew, from civil rights veterans to ministers who had never done more than sermonize on race-they are doing...
...would not produce this kind of film." The HST audience chuckled knowingly. But this is exactly the paradox that the movie points out. The American public does not know. Thousands of Chinese are starving in the American papers, and peasant morale is ebbing, but Greene's presentation stresses the zeal and vitality of the Chinese people and their fat babies. He says that he was free to photograph what he wished and often traveled alone. He politely notes that the Chinese censored nothing--the film was developed in England. Who am I to believe...
...possemen charged the civil rights demonstrators, Lackey asked Montgomery County sheriff Mac Sim Butler to help him get a small crowd of the marchers back to the other side of the street where the bulk of the crowd was being contained. Whether from personal sadistic zeal, or sheriff's orders, the possemen went wild, and began to charge both groups of demonstrators...
...while you feel that you have to say something." Yale President Kingman Brewster Jr. effectively closed the Bernstein case when he returned from a Bahamas vacation and announced that he would not overrule the tenure committee's adverse decision. But he also praised the students for their "zeal, good will and responsibility," promised to try to improve the techniques for "judging a man's work, especially as a teacher...