Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Surrogates tend to be serious, well-educated women in their late 30s or early 40s who approach their work with missionary-like zeal. "We are very professional. At all times I am giving so much information, it is very difficult for a man to think of me in any other way than as a therapist or teacher," says Los Angeles' Beverly Engel. Explains L.A.'s Sylvia Kars: "We work with dysfunctional clients in a slow, well-constructed program of therapy that may extend over many months...
...eyewitness accounts and subjective "impressions"-it offers a fascinating insight into how historians work, and how living political attitudes affect views of the dead past. Any stigma will do to beat a vicious dogma. Accordingly, says Time on the Cross, the trail of historical error began with the rhetorical zeal of abolitionists. Justly considering slavery a crime against God and man, they did not hesitate to exaggerate its iniquities I and weakness. Abolitionists like Frederick Law Olmsted and Cassius Marcellus Clay and slavery critics like Fanny Kemble were the main source of early stories about widespread cruelty and sexual abuse...
...Church Times, England's leading Anglican publication, praised Coggan as a man of "true evangelistic zeal and fervor" who was taking on a job that was "no bed of roses." Wrote Mervyn Stockwood, the liberal and nonconformist Bishop of Southwark, in the London Times: "I placed Donald Coggan at the top of the list. [He] is well aware of the problems that confront a generation that has been reared in a scientific era ... [He] is increasingly aware of the need for the church to concern itself with practical affairs." Others praised Coggan's efficiency and administrative abilities...
Perhaps from an excess of loyalty, zeal and awe of the presidency, Petersen appeared eager to give the White House every break he could. He was used to undermine his own investigation. On March 21, Nixon asked John Dean why the Assistant Attorney General had "played the game so straight with us." Said Dean: "Petersen is a soldier. He kept me informed. He told me when we had problems, where we had problems and the like. I don't think he has done anything improper, but he did make sure that the investigation was narrowed down to the very, very...
Although the zeal for racial equality dissipated after the first Reconstruction, Wright expressed confidence that "the future won't see the dismantling of the Second Reconstruction...