Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They called him a Hamlet when he was Archbishop of Milan. Lately, Pope Paul VI seems to be displaying the artful sovereignty of a Prospero and the action-now dash of a Henry V. And action now means a notable zeal for carrying out the renewal of Catholicism planned by John XXIII...
...question of civil rights, Wallace is a much different man. He combines the zeal of the true believer with the politician's sharp eye for the success that a segregationist stand can bring in the South. He has deliberately defied the law of the land. He has deliberately sought showdown confrontations with the Federal Government. When those showdowns came, he without exception retreated-as he knew all the while he would have...
Ironically, the union soon had a rival in reforming zeal: a lively new Board of Education, born of construction scandals that had sent the old board packing. But in trying to assert its power, the new board confronted a union mentality that distrusted "management" and seemed more obsessed with pay than pedagogy. Union demands soon demonstrated the fallacy of the idea that the board is management, for the board has no power of the purse and does not control its assets. It must appeal for money to the city's Democratic administration, which in turn depends on the state...
...these views is heretical, although some Catholics feel that Küng shows excessive zeal in pointing out the defects of the church. Küng is still listed as one of the council's theological experts, but there are rumors of an instruction pending in Rome that might restrict his freedom to publish or give public speeches. If so, Küng would join a long list of distinguished Catholic thinkers who have been silenced, at least temporarily, by Curia officials...
...road, or hopelessly demanding a drink at midnight, the London police seem paragons of patience. Whether breaking up a race riot or gingerly plucking anti-nuclear squatters from the pavement, the brawny, pink-cheeked bobby almost never resorts to the panicky brutality of the French flic or the officious zeal of the German Polizist. Britain's police, armed only with a night stick, still believe in pounding a beat. Its streets and parks after dark are among the world's safest; and while an English householder is away on vacation, likely as not the bobbies will keep...