Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Barton also had some remarks about the attitudes of his opponents. "Houses like Quincy, Lowell and Adams have the appropriate amateur zeal," he said. However, he feels that Mather and Winthrop both take intramural sports too seriously...
...grown somewhat weary of 25 years of international burdens," and that this weariness was "hastened by the anguish of the Viet Nam War." But he warns that "we cannot let the pendulum swing in the other direction, sweeping us toward an isolationism which could be as disastrous as excessive zeal." Nor can U.S. policy change too precipitously. "We cannot abandon friends, and must not transfer burdens too swiftly. We must strike a balance between doing too much and thus preventing self-reliance and doing too little and thus undermining self-confidence...
...effects of the new mood are unmistakable. Students are studying with unfamiliar zeal. "The undergraduates are not only doing all the assigned readings, they're even doing the supplementary reading," notes Amherst Political Science Professor Hadley Arkes. "It's fun to teach again," says Wisconsin Professor David Tarr. His classes in military history used to be the radicals' guerrilla-theater stage; now students linger after the lectures to ask polite questions. There is a new respect for the rights of others. At Harvard, which protested strongly 22 months ago against ROTC, a Marine Corps recruiter recently turned up on campus...
...could be China's protector-began about the turn of the century. On the one hand there was John Hay's "Open Door" policy, which in fact meant that the U.S. demanded equal trading rights with the European powers. On the other, there was the zeal, mostly idealistic, of religious missionaries, whose work had the support of millions back home. By the end of World War I, the sense of mission and patronage was so strong that public and press angrily denounced Woodrow Wilson when he acquiesced to Japan's taking over Germany's privileges...
Like a number of scholars, novelists and moviemakers, Dee Brown, Western historian and head librarian at the University of Illinois, now attempts to balance the account. With the zeal of an IRS investigator, he audits U.S. history's forgotten set of books. Compiled from old but rarely exploited sources plus a fresh look at dusty Government documents. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee tallies the broken pronrses 'tnd treaties, the provocations, massacres. discriminatory policies and condescending diplomacy...