Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...these hearings, and all of these sanctions, will be so much misplaced zeal and effort. If the Administration were as quick to value the moral argument against apartheid as they are the "smooth" functioning of their University, we might all be able to attend to the real issues at hand--whether this University stands for something higher that profit, whether the truth in "Veritas" really means anything. (and incidentally, truth is never "neutral...
...troubleshooter, he's been assigned to the untroubled Australian Division to find out what the trouble is, then take care of it. "Don't get scared" and "don't get angry" Coke warns the Australian Headquarters. The caveat seems an understatement when we see the incredible yet believable religious zeal which Roberts gives his character. Truly, he is what Kubrick had in mind in Dr. Strangelove with the solemn declaration "You'll have to answer to the Coca-Cola Company." He permits no distractions, such a sexy secretary (Greta Scacchi) or a revolutionary waiter, to block his quest for constant...
...audience that froze the night, the mostly young, carefully dressed crowd of black men, women and children who had clearly come home to Brother Farrakhan. Discount some of their zeal as a thumb-your-nose-at-Whitey exercise. Discount some as exuberance or hysteria in numbers. Still, the Garden heaved with hatred. If you closed your eyes you could picture all the hate mobs ever--Khomeini's mob, Kahane's mob. Their hatred was palpable, enormous. It changed reality. Suddenly the crowd was in the millions, encompassing the living and the dead...
...claustrophobic individual, the contemporary southern syndrome of small town suffocation. In Tuna, matters like segregation, Christian biology, and textbook censorship aren't issues--they're fact, as fundamental as hunting season and hell. The town's moral crusades attack hippies, the liberal press, and literary art with a zeal that makes the Conservative Club look tolerant...
...individuals. The rapid growth of student government in the form of the the Undergraduate Council, to take another example, and the multiplication of its functions surely represents one of the most salient features of undergraduate life in recent years while student representation on University committees increases annually. Sometimes this zeal for government spills over into areas not directly related to student affairs, such as the current efforts to tell the University where to put its endowment dollars. Why, then, in light of our passion for self-government, should we reject an honor code which is nothing if not an extension...