Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...took me a while after my first Sox season to realize that, for the team's fans, disappointment was the rule rather than the exception. At the time, in my youthful zeal, my fist would punish a nearby chair, the floor or even my own thigh at the sight of a Sox miscue. After the season, I almost could not finish Sparky Lyle's The Bronx Zoo, which painstakingly recounted and reveled in the 1978 tragedy...
...lack of zeal on the part of heads of the richer schools such as the Law School and Business School to contribute to a fundraising effort which will not give them control over all funds gathered from their own alumni still casts a shadow over the drive...
...Healy's zeal to yoke public schools with libraries springs from his long commitment to the poor, particularly members of minorities. He firmly believes that in the future, America will be "multicolored" and had better be ready to make the most of it. Some 16 years ago, he tried to start a community college in the Bedford Stuyvesant ghetto in Brooklyn (it failed for lack of funding). Perhaps the high point of his career was the years at CUNY where, with fighting-Irish brio, he led the fray surrounding the open-admissions policy, in the early '70s a divisive urban...
Sununu, whose task was to keep the Republican right quiet until the summit concluded, apparently did his job with far greater zeal than Bush intended. Sununu's efforts almost torpedoed the summit before it started. Democrats immediately took them as confirmation of their darkest suspicions -- that Bush is again trying to portray the Democrats as the high-tax party, by euchring them into proposing an increase that he could either virtuously reject or pretend had been rammed down his throat as the price for shrinking the deficit. "Now I wonder if this ((summit invitation)) is a good-faith effort...
...their zeal to do the right thing, the architects of prime time are largely masking the strains in race relations and the social isolation of the black underclass. On most shows, blacks are portrayed either as work buddies or in comfortable middle-class roles like an art-gallery owner on Father Dowling Mysteries. As a result, prejudice becomes an abstraction to be preached against and overt bigotry all but limited to a bizarrely menacing alliance between American Nazis and skinheads on 21 Jump Street. So too does TV breezily dismiss the crisis of the black family. On Bagdad Cafe, Whoopi...