Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Because killers and victims often know each other, homicide investigations are sometimes finished quickly: on average, 70% of them are solved, vs. 57% for aggravated assault and 26% for robberies. Yet too often there is little zeal to find and prosecute the culprits if the victims are considered unsavory. They may have been involved in drugs or prostitution or had a long police record of muggings and violence. Steve Rothenburg, assistant state attorney in Florida's Marion County, says locals often consider such offenses as merely "shooting into occupied clothing." Taking such cases to trial, he says, can be futile...
...whom Quayle seemed almost apolitical. Pope says Manion "dragged" Quayle and him to a meeting or two of the Young Americans for Freedom, but "Dan ((Manion)) was so far right he scared Danny and me." Certainly there were young activists in Quayle's circle who shared his father's zeal for Ashbrook. But Quayle did his work at the attorney general's office and in class, and went home to his grandmother's house in Lebanon...
...alone in this. Ever the magpie, fashion has caught on to ecology. "Le look vegetal" is popular in Paris, where earth colors and materials like fake hemp and mock plant stems are making news. In Henderson's case, the affinity to natural colors probably predates environmental zeal. "I like fruit tones, wood, stones," he says. "I keep beautiful rocks around, and I dry flowers to see which shades will emerge...
...notable exceptions ranging from John Singleton Copley to Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins. Bigotry had much to do with it, but so did history and artists' working conditions. The show offers too little aesthetic pleasure but plenty of social significance and maybe a bit too much prosecutorial zeal...
...until Homer's Dressing for the Carnival, 1877 -- beyond comparison the most moving and solidly imagined painting in the show -- were the subtlety, sympathy and fullness of Copley's rendering repeated. Nevertheless, there are times when McElroy's prosecutorial zeal gets away from him. Samuel Jennings' Liberty Displaying the Arts and Sciences, 1792, may be a naive image, but no one could doubt that its heart is in the right place. It shows the Goddess of Freedom in her temple offering the emblems of civilization -- books, an artist's palette, a lyre, a globe and, most important...