Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...magazine was blue enough to make a Times Square news dealer wince, but Japanese intellectuals have since made Nakata into a kind of Ginza Ginzburg. Critic Isamu Kurita, writing in the influential Tokyo daily Yomiuri Shimbun, warned that excessive official zeal in enforcing Japan's tough obscenity laws could lead to "the barbarization of our culture and civilization in its crudest form." Tokyo Psychology Professor Kazuo Shimada sputtered that Nakata's arrest was unfair because sex "is a personal and private matter." Mitsuo Takeya, a leading Japanese nuclear physicist, worried that government repression "could end up by distorting...
...Taverner, in his day a respected composer of sacred music. As the Reformation gained strength, Taverner abandoned Catholicism and became notorious as an agent of Thomas Cromwell who allegedly specialized in persecuting Catholic priests and burning their monasteries. To Davies, Taverner is a tragic figure in that his revolutionary zeal led him to turn his back on his artistic gifts. The Elizabethan historian John Foxe wrote that Taverner "repented him very much that he had made songs to popish ditties in the times of his blindness." But Davies maintains that the music Taverner wrote prior to his conversion...
...than he did in his astonishing march to the nomination. Although his party suffered no humiliation similar to the one caused by the street violence and turbulence of the 1968 Chicago convention, it emerged from Miami Beach badly split over McGovern's brand of populism and the reformist zeal of his insurgents in taking party control away from its veteran power brokers. At the same time, national approval of Richard Nixon's conduct as President is running at 56%, and a preconvention Gallup poll puts him 16% ahead of McGovern in a two-way race. His sensational summitry...
...turns in his son Klaas as a deserter with the same alacrity and sense of duty that he feels when he spanks naughty Siggi or rescues a cat from a tree. He lives according to the stereotype of "the impeccable officer of the law" and carries out orders with zeal--"without orders he was only half...
...Churches Are Growing (Harper & Row), Dean Kelley, director for civil and religious liberty of the National Council of Churches, argues that religions exist essentially to explain the meaning of human existence in ultimate terms. Successful religious movements, he finds, maintain a high profile of unshakable beliefs, exclusiveness, strict discipline, zeal, and a distinct code of behavior. A classic case was the early Methodist movement, which achieved social power through fervent piety and preaching, and puritanical rules...