Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Government's suit was well timed; it was announced 24 hours before George Romney, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, arrived to testify before Father Hesburgh's commission. Under considerable fire from Hesburgh, who admits to skepticism about the Administration's zeal, Romney maintained that it would be HUD's policy to grant housing funds only to communities that are willing to accept housing projects for the poor. The Federal Government, however, will not force low-income housing on anyone. As one Administration official put it: "We're not swinging a big stick...
There is an uncommon morning freshness to this movement, a buoyant atmosphere of hope and love along with the usual rebel zeal. Some converts seem to enjoy translating their new faith into everyday life, like those who answer the phone with "Jesus loves you" instead...
...still means business: this year's budget is $12 million, and by next month he will have 3,000 full-time staffers on 450 campuses. Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship is a different breed of campus evangelism?more intellectual, more socially concerned?but it has no lack of gospel zeal. It conducted a missionary convention at the University of Illinois last December that drew 12,000, probably the largest college religious meeting in North American history. Young Life, founded in 1941, reaches its audience with 1,300 clubs, U.S. and foreign. Youth for Christ began business a few years later with...
...only group which did not react with zeal to the bombing, it turned out, was the police. The Cambridge police issued confused and contradictory statements in the days immediately following the bombing. Detective Sgt. James A. Roscoe claimed hours after the blast that police had identified two women as suspects. That figure was subsequently reduced to one, whom police then claimed to have under surveillance. Roscoe then stated that "this seemed to be a very sophisticated bomb [which] women wouldn't be able to build. . . . It could be a national organization." The investigation later fizzled...
...toward the Church itself. On one level, there is growing pressure for liturgical reform which would reflect present-day realities, and on another, there are concerted efforts to prod the Catholic hierarchy into positions of support for the antiwar movement and civil rights. And much of these activists' radical zeal has been a direct result of their own experience within the Church...