Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...freedoms have been embraced enthusiastically. Hanoi vendors squat on the curbs during the evening selling a variety of goods, ranging from tiny bananas to disco shoes. In Haiphong, the 400 employees of a machine workshop are moonlighting with zeal. Every afternoon when the state work is finished, the metal scraps are gathered and turned into spare parts for gasoline stoves or into metal strips to bind wooden crates. So far the extra work has added between 30% and 40% to the average laborer's monthly...
...minute conversation, they declared, "The time is too short and the need too pressing to waste Christian energy pursuing old rivalries," and added, "The talents and resources of all the churches must be shared if Christ is to be seen and heard effectively." They paid credit to the zeal of Africa's churches...
Catholics in Zaïre are also "Africanizing" the liturgy in ways marked by high church attendance and great zeal. At a typical Mass the young priest dons a zebra's mane headdress while assistants, men and women alike, clap and shuffle around the altar to the throbbing of drums and an occasional shrill scream of religious ecstasy. The congregation swings, sings lustily and sways with the rhythms. "The Latin rite is too impersonal for Africans," the priest explains. "The Zaïreans' Mass comes from the heart." Clergy were chilled a bit when John Paul insisted...
...Kinship to back up his thesis on incest as repetition. King is not afraid, unfortunately, to make sweeping one-line statements about Freud's memory theories or characterize, without explaining, Cash as the "Weberian ideal type." King incessantly refers to these sociological and psychological giants with college freshman zeal: proud of his discovery that Freud applies to everything, King vows to include a key passage in every chapter. This irritating intention begins in the introductory chapter, where King announces self-importantly his summation...
...Cramps pursue their vision with a messianic zeal. "Garbage Man" delivers the ultimate manifesto to those who think the Cramps are nothing more than the Munsters on dope and to those punky types who believe themselves too cool for the crypt...