Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their U.S. counterparts. But important differences will always remain-if for no other reason than that so much of European business is nationalized. Contrary to what most Americans might expect, some of Europe's ablest managers are civil servants who drive to expand their industrial empires with a zeal worthy of any capitalist. Says Civil Servant Pierre Dreyfus, who has built France's state-owned Renault company into one of the world's most efficient auto producers: "We have no reason to be nationalized unless we serve France-but on one condition: we must not lose money...
Task for Vatican Council? The reactions to unfulfilled promises, says Callahan, are already plentifully visible: "The unwillingness of many recent Catholic college graduates to join parish or church organizations; the flight from Catholic higher education of many young Catholic scholars; the transference of the zeal of many apostolic Catholics from Church to secular organizations; the desire of innumerable Catholics to detach themselves from any cultural attachment to the Church, to lose themselves in a sheltering, pluralistic society." Callahan thinks that the frustration of lay hopes could lead to anticlericalism, but sees a more immediate danger in the dissipation...
Eble devotes a chapter to the battle between faculties and administrations. Part of the trouble stems from the loss of students' zeal ("American students come reluctantly to learning"), compared with the old days when students controlled the colleges and levied fines on professors late to class. I might interject here that in Latin American students still sometimes gain control of their universities, but in a manner that would have shocked their medieval predecessors. In the U.S., at any rate, the colleges now have to provide "both impetus and direction" since today's students have "no clear idea where they...
What They Say. Betty is now so far out in official Washington that she is almost back in again: tipsters favor her with items they know would be wasted on other, more timid columnists. But once Betty is on to a story, she pursues it with ruthless zeal, never blanching at button holing Washington's most imposing figures to check it out, rarely pausing to consider its consequences...
...reciprocal trade program. It would empower the President to slash U.S. tariffs by 50% or more-all the way down to zero on important categories of manufactured goods (TIME, Jan. 26 et seq.). But against this grave challenge, the protectionists have put up a flabby fight. The vigor and zeal of yesteryear are gone...