Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well as philosophical and political lines. The blacks are proudly eating soul foods, the hardhats feast on as much red meat as they can afford, and the white-collar liberals seem to be keeping down their cholesterol with chicken and veal. The youth of Woodstock Nation? With almost religious zeal, they are becoming vegetarians. They are also in the vanguard of the flourishing organic-food movement, insisting on produce grown without chemical fertilizers or pesticides...
...film employs a fashionable conceit: behind their separate training and tradition, it claims, both captains are existential twins. Balderdash. The very casting works against the theme. Griem conveys a zeal that has crystallized into fanaticism. As for Keith, he can never adopt any posture for long without questioning it. His ironic underplay is, in fact, the strength of the drama. Even with lesser actors, Director Lament Johnson could have provided a crisp, driving movie. With this cast, The McKenzie Break deserves far better than its current saturation booking...
Tanned and rugged-looking, the 56-year-old grandfather still travels the globe, constantly preaching the cause of the Green Revolution (and also of birth control). Despite his evangelical zeal, however, he seems happiest at home in Mexico. After one recent trip, during which he visited a dozen countries in almost as many days, he arrived back at his farm late at night and looked at the cloudless sky. "It's a wonderful moonlit night," he told his haggard companions. Then, after seeing them off to bed, he stayed up until dawn, inspecting his fields...
...goods and ideas. Wills sees Nixon as both caricature and culmination of the traditional theory that free competition will reward virtue and produce excellence. He is "Plastic Man," a dogged survivor of political enterprise, Whittier College's second-string lineman bathed in a Calvinist sweat of guilt and zeal, the political reincarnation of Uriah Keep...
Behind all the battling is the fact that many of the 850 neighborhood Legal Services offices are suing local and state government agencies on behalf of their indigent clients. At issue are legal rights to everything from welfare to public housing and health care. Such zeal prompted a regional OEO director's unsuccessful attempts to hold up funds for Chicago's Legal Services program until he could extract a promise not to sue the city. In addition, some Legal Services firebrands have alienated conservative elements in their communities of militants...