Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Friends of De la Uz call him a Dr. Zhivago. He fought underground with Castro's 26th of July movement and in his early 20s went to the Communist Party school in Moscow for grooming. But by 1968 he had lost his zeal and wrote a stinging critique of the party for being undemocratic. He was banished to a railway shop, where he labored in silence until...
...challenging a church hierarchy dominated by the stolid sons and grandsons of Irish immigrants, who now are struggling to recruit Hispanic priests. The bishops also face Pentecostal or Baptist soul winners who successfully target Spanish- speaking neighborhoods. Meanwhile, Koreans have had a notable impact within - Protestantism with their evangelistic zeal and religious traditionalism...
...much interested in them dooms them. That this should happen a second time in the history of the Semitic Museum, so soon after it was exhumed from its previous shabby interment, should be an embarrassment to the present president and dean. What motivated them to condone the boundless zeal and willfulness of one faculty member...
...steady rain of anti-Freud arguments did little to discourage the parade of his theories or to dampen the zeal of his followers. In fact, Freud erected an apparently invulnerable umbrella against criticisms of psychoanalytical principles. He characterized such disagreements, from patients or anyone else, as "resistance" and then asserted that instances of such resistance amounted to "actual evidence in favor of the correctness" of his assertions. For a long time, this psychoanalytic Catch-22 worked wonders: those who opposed the methods put forth to heal them and others could be banished, perhaps with a friendly handshake and a knowing...
...called the Middle Kingdom, a self-absorbed and xenophobic empire. Its massive indifference to the outside world remained in place for millenniums, through dynasties and revolutions. Until, suddenly, the communists in Beijing cast aside their Marxist zeal and set their country on the road to capitalism. Only 15 years later, China -- with a fifth of the globe's population -- is a candidate superpower, more involved in international life than ever before in its history. The impact of its emergence is so profound that scholars are predicting relations between China and the U.S. will shape the world in the 21st century...