Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That excess of zeal brought a gentle reminder from Police Commissioner Donald Cawley that citizens should not "see themselves as police, prosecutor and jury." But everyone, including Cawley, took heart at the apparent reversal of the city's "I don't want to get involved" attitude, reified nine years ago when Kitty Genovese, 28, was stabbed to death as dozens of her Queens neighbors looked on without even bothering to call the police. With appropriate caution, New York Mayor John Lindsay expressed the hope that "it's the beginning of a trend...
...retirement age of 80 to the Archbishop (Chrysostomos was 87). In his place as Archbishop of Athens they installed Palace Chaplain Ieronymos Kotsonis, a gray-bearded stripling then 61. A professor of canon law and author of more than 90 published works, Ieronymos started out with all the zeal of a theologian newly armed with power. He ordered special drives to aid the poor and sick, revamped the church welfare system, rented hundreds of "homes of tranquillity" for the aged. He raised clerical salaries substantially. He drafted a new charter for the church that set 72 as the retirement...
...earlier days of his imprisonment for destroying draft records, the Rev. Philip Berrigan had strong views on the value of the Roman Catholic discipline of priestly celibacy. Married resisters, he noted, were not fully free to fight: they had to temper zeal with prudence and think of their families as well as their mission. Few of his fellow revolutionaries agreed with him more than Sister Elizabeth McAlister, an intense and idealistic admirer, who was convicted at Harrisburg last year, along with Berrigan, of smuggling letters into and out of a federal prison...
...Street from the dragons plaguing it. In 1970 he heeded pleas from John Connally and John Mitchell and pumped capital into duPont Glore Forgan, the country's third largest brokerage house, to save it from going under. Since then, he has infused almost $80 million and his evangelizing zeal into duPont, in which he owns almost 100% of the stock, and another big brokerage house, Walston & Co., in which he will soon control a one-third voting interest...
...film mak ers, who stage each detail of erotic dalliance even more fondly than the newsman spies on it. The cast is hopelessly eager to please and includes, be sides the continually perspiring McMullan, several young women who reveal various portions of their anatomy with the zeal of go-go dancers taking a last shot at the big time...