Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...between the papacy and art may be judged from the roomful of uncomfortably "religious" paintings by André Derain, Graham Sutherland and Ben Shahn, enlivened only by a Matisse design for a large stained-glass window that gives the exhibition its feeble coda. Owing in part to the zeal of an association called the Friends of American Art in Religion, run by an art dealer named Lawrence Fleischman under the benign presidency of Terence Cardinal Cooke, masses of otherwise unsalable modern religious art have been decanted into the Vatican since the late '60s. The result, the Collezione...
...this could be interesting if Kennedy supplied some personal involvement, but the initially sympathetic qualities in O'Brien fade as her political career takes off. As her reformist zeal becomes lust for power, more and more of Kennedy's attention goes to her pleasure in manipulating men, throwing temper tantrums, and other childish antics...
Missionary Zeal...
...restore order in Matabeleland, the Mugabe government last August launched Operation Octopus, an offensive by seven army battalions that netted 450 suspects. But in their zeal to root out dissidents, the soldiers roughed up many of the Ndebeles, increasing the tribe's hostility toward the Mugabe government. Last summer saboteurs wrecked 13 planes, about 25% of Zimbabwe's air force, while ZIPRA rebels abducted six tourists (two Americans, two British and two Australians) returning from a trip to Victoria Falls. Nkomo disavowed the crimes and traveled through Matabeleland urging the locals to aid in the hunt...
...same time, that it is hard to imagine anyone else in the role. She plays Susan Traherne, who as a girl of 17 was dropped behind German lines in France to work as a British courier. The character is never able to recapture the purity of her wartime zeal. As the play follows her through the next 20 years, shifting backward and forward through time, her personality hardens into madness, and she brings ruin not only to herself but her husband, who is movingly played by Edward Herrmann...