Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...smart, rich or powerful enough to run the world, but we are certainly not smart, rich or powerful enough to maintain our prosperity and democracy in a world dominated by antagonistic forces and philosophies. To find the balance between more or less saintly isolation and crusading global zeal, between the danger of exhausting ourselves through untenable foreign commitments and imprisoning ourselves in an untenable American fortress-that is the difficult current task of American foreign policy...
...understand why people identify her with the character she plays on screen. "I'm acting," she protests, "not playing myself," and friends loyally insist that her occasionally batty behavior is a hype. No one would deny, however, that she hurls herself into her roles with uncommon zeal. Drive, He Said originally got an X rating partly because of the ardor that Black and Co-Star William Tepper showed during one scene in the front seat of a car. After filming a nude scene, Karen can forget to put her robe back on. On one movie set she volunteered...
...portrait of Bobby Massie's enduring courage and the decency and devotion of those who helped him makes Journey a remarkable human document. Beyond that, the Massies' analysis of how the disease is handled and mishandled by American medicine is a model of reportorial precision and reformist zeal...
...astonishing victory. No statesman now alive, except Yugoslavia's Tito and China's Mao, has so shaped his country's destiny. With his skill, cunning, sense of history and unshakable will, he turned a peasant and impoverished country into a force that exhibited fervor and zeal rarely matched in this century...
Enough of this nonsense about torches of liberty and frontier spirit, he would shout to the crowd. And enough of this guerilla-theater message-to-Wall-Street crap. I ask you all to act with the zeal of civic sacrifice that was so noble among the men and women of this nation in the throes of its birth. Starting tomorrow I am drafting all Americans between the ages of 21 and 30 into a civil militia. For one year each of you will serve the nation without pay, in some public service capacity. You will have a broad selection...