Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seasonal zeal for gift giving is not confined to the U.S. Taking their cue from the U.S., stores and streets all over Western Europe are decked out in Christmas trim to lure affluent buyers. In officially atheistic Russia, where the authorities frown upon the "bourgeois" tradition of Christmas, citizens still crowd into department stores and exchange gifts around the "New Year's trees" while children babble about "Grandfather Frost." In Hindu India, gifts and greetings are exchanged, and on Christmas Day the shops close and liquor prohibitions are relaxed. In Islamic Morocco, seven-year-old Princess Amina, daughter...
...22nd Party Congress, setting itself up as the guide and model for the world's underdeveloped nations and claiming Marxism's true ideological heritage. Peking argues that under Khrushchev's anti-Stalin line, the Soviet Union has grown fat and bourgeois and lacks revolutionary zeal in dealing with the West. Red China has even announced that it will develop its own nuclear weapons and many in the West take the threat seriously...
...have been written "by Henry James, gulled, cozened." She wonders if spacemen are headed for the "lunar bin." She worries about that poor fellow "who felt his old Krafft ebbing." She is a master of the line rhyme, as when she notes primly that "The refined mind/ Will conceal zeal." To get at the diseases of man, she scrubs up, pulls on rubber gloves, and performs delicate logogastrectomies: "The if in the gift is the motive of the giving...
Deep Shock. The ferocity of the junta's reforming zeal may have toned down some of the country's bad habits-Seoul's normally dirty streets are now perceptibly cleaner, the once chaotic traffic is almost miraculously smooth-but there have been harmful side effects. In the first angry flush after the coup, the ill-paid officers of the junta slapped immense fines on prosperous businessmen and merchants for "illegal profiteering." Many of the fines were later reduced, but the business community remains in deep shock. In one district of Pusan alone, 400 shops have closed...
Like his gifted superior, Dr. Wieschhoff was utterly selfless in his zeal for the welfare of others-one way to describe a saint? NARDI REEDER CAMPION Bronxville...