Word: zeal
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...normalization of relations with the People's Republic brings to full circle an extraordinary one-century course of American involvement in China. It is a history of passionate infatuation and ruthless exploitation, of missionary zeal and often of tremendous mutual incomprehension. The cycle started with the education in Hartford, Conn., of China's first foreign students in 1872. Eventually, as Dean Acheson wrote, "hardly a town in our land was without its society to collect funds and clothing for Chinese missions ... Thus was nourished the love portion of our love-hate complex that was to infuse so much emotion into...
...Great Leap Forward (1958-60), with its preposterous backyard pig-iron furnaces and bureaucratic romance of communal farms, left the country in depression and famine. Less than a decade later came the Cultural Revolution, a three-year Maoist spasm of revolutionary zeal against the onset of complacency and bureaucracy. The Cultural Revolution dislocated nearly every institution of Chinese life, many of which still have not recovered. A case can be made that Mao lived too long. The Great Revolutionary died at 82, an enfeebled puppet. His legacy, after the Cultural Revolution, was a ramshackle economy, a badly equipped military...
...Instead of studying, the 16-year-old Teng got a job in a Paris galosh factory. At the same time, he helped out in the offices of a Chinese Communist periodical called Red Light. Its editor was Chou Enlai, who later became Teng's patron and protector. Teng's zeal in carrying out the menial chores of binding and mimeographing the magazine soon earned him the nickname of "Doctor of Mimeography...
Many of Begin's Cabinet members are still opposed to any form of linkage. Some groused last week that Dayan and Defense Minister Ezer Weizman had "acted without authority" in their zeal to reach a settlement with the Egyptians in Washington. Later the Cabinet was the scene of an unusually angry argument over a plan by hawkish Agriculture Minister Ariel Sharon to establish a big new Israeli settlement in Gaza. Many of Sharon's colleagues thought this a bad idea anyway; practically all of them were angry that his aides had leaked the details of the plan while...
...Even Teng's most fervent supporters are afraid that the four modernizations program will survive only as long as its septuagenarian founder. Though it appears unlikely that his pragmatic goals will be abandoned, there is evidence that Hua and others in the Politburo have accepted them with less zeal and enthusiasm than Teng would like...