Word: zeal
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...ZEAL OF THE ABSENTEE...
...Teach for America, a radical attempt to woo promising graduates of the nation's top colleges into teaching. Whirlwind Wendy Kopp conceived the idea when she was an undergraduate at Princeton. She developed it in her senior thesis and, since her graduation in 1989, has pursued it with obsessive zeal, organizing recruiters at 100 campuses and raising $2 million in corporate and foundation gifts. The basic notion is that non-education majors, after a crash course of training, will serve two-year stints as teachers in U.S. public schools in a sort of domestic education equivalent of the Peace Corps...
...Schwerin. All were imported for, or staged locally to enrich, last month's Berlin Theatertreffen, the city's 27th annual festival of productions from around the German-speaking world. Although the doctrinaire Marxism of Bertolt Brecht, Germany's greatest 20th century playwright, has fallen out of fashion, his zeal to shake up bourgeois spectators still seems to inspire his artistic successors...
...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...