Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Charles de Gaulle emerged from his twelve-year retirement at Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises, Canard hailed him as Christopher Colombey, and celebrated his crusading zeal by calling him "Charles d'Arc." But lately Le Canard has taken to picturing De Gaulle with a crown and wearing the robes of Charlemagne or Louis XV ("Aprés le déluge, moi!"). As the Sun King himself, De Gaulle is shown crying: "Bread! Next, they'll be asking for cars and washing machines...
Puritans by Exertion. Taking office, they poured out their avenging anti-Western zeal by ripping down Queen Elizabeth's portrait, slashing British bureaucrats' salaries, banning juke boxes, comic books and other manifestations of what they called the West's "yellow culture." Tieless, coatless puritans presiding over the sybaritic center of the old South Seas, they rapidly got a name as Southeast Asia's most honest administrators. Certainly their streets were the cleanest. But Prime Minister Lee, a wealthy, Cambridge-schooled Chinese, soon grasped that Singapore by itself is an island emporium ill suited to revolutionary socialism...
Southern Baptist missionary zeal is unrivaled. Some 1,500 foreign missionaries are currently doing medical, education and evangelical work in 44 countries, with their best achievements registered in Japan, Nigeria and Brazil (1,470 Baptist churches). In Nigeria, five Cabinet ministers in the Western Region are mission-trained Baptists. In Ghana, a Baptist mission hospital treats some 2,400 patients a month. In Kenya, Moslems and Christians, Arabs and Negro tribesmen attend Sunday school by the hundreds, and women flock to weekday sewing classes. In Beirut, Lebanon, last week, the Southern Baptists' 36th foreign seminary opened with 22 students...
...Fervent for missionary work among peoples of all races, it yet has to come to terms with the racial problems in its own dooryard. Pouring millions of dollars into education, it yet has made no effort to recommend ministerial stand ards to its cooperating churches. While loudly proclaiming its zeal to win the world for Christ, it yet bans any official relationship to national or world ecumenical movements. As they invade new territories, domestic and foreign, their cultural and social presuppositions are being challenged the more. The denomination is gradually becoming more cosmopolitan...
Amid the excitement and prevailing uncertainty of what has been called "Africa's year," Essien U. Eissien-Udom, teaching fellow in Government, views the emergence of his native continent with a pan-african visionary's zeal tinged by a natural skepticism for politicians and a deeply felt attachment to traditional, but passing, customs. He is, as he says, "a traditionalist and a modernist...