Word: zeal
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...writes in The Crimson of Sept. 30 that the Core is badly dumbed down and fails to serve its stated intent to teach “approaches” to knowledge (Column, "The Hollowed Core"). But Kavulla ignores successful aspects of the Core in his zeal to discredit...
...request “Main Offender” on Kiss 97-FM. A media creation from the beginning, the mystique of this movement was fueled by a rockcrit elite eager to package and brand a look and sound that they found collectively palatable. Caught up in a rock revival zeal, few stepped back to question: What exactly did these four bands and the various stragglers have in common? What vision did the Hives share with the White Stripes aside from duochrome fashion choices? If bare-bones rock was the uniting factor, where exactly did the regularly over-produced Vines...
...free speech. While Flynt concedes that the Founding Fathers probably didn’t “have Hustler magazine in mind when they wrote the First Amendment,” it’s a cause which his profession has forced him to adopt with the zeal of, literally and figuratively, a man under fire...
...government] get up in the morning thinking, 'How can we destroy the country and pull the wool over the media's eyes?' They think they're better than politicians and that people in politics are all liars. I think that's very dangerous." Campbell speaks with the zeal of a convert; he's a former tabloid reporter who jumped officially to the Labour Party after Blair became its leader in 1994. But in this case he may have the weight of evidence on his side, since Britain's top spies appear to be backing Campbell's insistence that although...
...techno music, dope and sex. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of families started their treks from the damp north of the Continent to their vacation homes in the warm south. But even when the sun isn't shining, Europeans seem to be throwing themselves into fun and festivity with unprecedented zeal. Each weekend, central London is one great bacchanal. Cities that for reasons of politics or religion were once gloomily repressive--Madrid, say, or Dublin--now rock to the small hours. In Prague the foreign visitors who get talked about are not the earnest young Americans who flocked there...