Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THERE'S A LOT of missionary zeal in the dance world. Many dancers find themselves still fighting the battle Martha Graham supposedly won--for the acceptance of dance as a legitimate art form by the American public. Colleges have played a big part in the fight, sheltering dancers when it was next to impossible for them to make a living otherwise. (The big summer dance festivals at Bennington and Connecticut College came into existence precisely because in the off-season dance companies had no other work.) Unlike the other performing arts, dance derives a good proportion of its creative vitality...
...reflected glow of Anne Bancroft's fiery performance as her lawyer. Bancroft, looking rather haggard, uses her familiar tight-lipped, manipulative and superbly confident persona for the forces of good this time; here she's Mrs. Robinson in professional clothing, expressing her contempt for men with the zeal of a crusader who has finally found a worthy cause. The part is embarrassingly small for an actress with such enormous scope, but the intelligent and rancorous gleam in her eye suggests what she might have done with this movie given half a chance...
...professor. In his posthumous book The Morality of Consent, he answered: "It is the contest that serves the interest of society as a whole, which is identified neither with the interest of the Government alone nor of the press." Bickel expected each side to pursue its interest with zeal, but "the weight of the First Amendment is on the reporter's side, because the assumption . . . is that secrecy and the control of news are all too inviting, all too easily achieved, and, in general, all too undesirable...
...villain, Stephen Spender's verse translation depicts both monarchs as victims of historical circumstance. If Elizabeth's decree obliges Mary to mount the scaffold, the Stuart queen has at least the consolation of dying surrounded by admirers and absolved from sin. Elizabeth, on the other hand, in her zeal to save appearances is finally condemned by them, retaining her crown only at the cost of losing the friendship and popular support that gave it meaning...
...than new school buildings. And inside those prisons, the SAVAK practices torture on students, teachers and others who disagree vocally with the Shah's repressive policies. As Nat Hentoff reported in the Village Voice last month, the SAVAK uses fairly standard methods of torture: "power batons used with special zeal in the genital area...the pulling of teeth by decidedly non-licensed practitioners...and the 'Hot Table,'" something pioneered by the Iranians which gradually toasts and ultimately burns the strapped-in prisoner. Iranian exiles report that SAVAK, estimated to be 70,000 strong, has at least two agents or informers...