Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kennedy's zeal for an activist Big Government, which has long been his mark, has gradually become more selective. His stiff antitrust legislation, his endless hearings against increasing conglomerate mergers, have put him on the side of opening the way for smaller companies to compete against the biggest corporations...
...productive investment and an inflationary consumer boom. The Tories have claimed they will provide some of the money by allowing private investment in state-run industries--but this ignores the fact that most state enterprises were taken over by both parties in the past not because of socialist zeal but because private enterprise had failed to run them profitably. They are hardly a good risk for capitalist investors...
...point of meditation is to add new thoughts, not rearrange the old ones, Chitrabhanu says. He adds young people are much better at meditating and accepting the idea of karma than older ones. They are the key to solving the world's problems, because they have the zeal to do it. Older people, more set in their patterns of thinking, lack the energy, enthusiasm and time to change the course of their lives...
...spiralling Beardsley-style medley of psychedelic colors and stereotyped figures on their way to Woodstock. That was when we were in the midst of Vietnam, Chicago 7, Timothy Leary and Hare Krishna. The play poked fun at everyone, including its own heroes to some degree, but some earnest zeal and anger permeated, betraying a sympathy with the movement. Fortunately, the movie is handled with humor and a light easygoing attitude which circumvents the cringing prospect of being subjected to cliched pseudo-ideologies. It's a celebration of sorts; catchy, familiar music with some very funny lyrics accompanied by superb choreography...
Harold Bloom's earlier studies of William Blake and W.B. Yeats, both impressive works of literary criticism, should have taught him to beware these dangers. But in The Flight to Lucifer. Bloom's latest work, the author's zeal to communicate an obscure but not inherently tedious theory of religion overwhelms him, and he does not live up to his chosen role of myth-maker. Bloom clothes his doctrinal argument in a flimsy mantle of epic fantasy. He would probably have done better to write an essay than this dreary mess...