Word: zeal
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...Union speech last Tuesday, counterpointed the next morning by the jarring numbers in his fiscal 1987 budget, replayed the themes he has stressed throughout his charmed political life. As he turned an enviable 75 last week, Reagan pushed his red-white-and-blue vision with a young man's zeal and showed his unflagging determination to bring his revolution to fulfillment...
Sure, compared to Screw magazine and the underground porn film industry which sometimes gets its "talent" by kidnapping, drugging, and then raping women on film, any mention of SI as "sexist" or "harmful" can be seen only as misplaced zeal, making the mag a victim of the anger and resentment it never imagined it would engender. And there are those who will find SI's title, "Ornaments of Society", a lighthearted, self-conscious joke--a joke on all who would take it seriousy as anything other than a shot of midwinter warmth, not to mention an ad-revenue extravaganza...
...been more successful in encouraging Reagan to resume negotiations with the Soviet Union on a variety of issues, most notably arms control. It is this very success, however, that has subjected Shultz to attack from those on the far right. They accuse him of sins ranging from insufficient zeal for U.S. aid to anti-Marxist rebels in Angola to appointing too many nonideological diplomats to policy posts. But their fundamental complaint is that Shultz believes in negotiation, not confrontation, with the Soviets. David Funderburk, a protege of North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms who served 3 1/2 years as Ambassador...
...Crimson has reported and supported a campaign, first to dissociate the College from the Final Clubs and, now, to persuade students that membership in them is dishonorable. Given the modest role of the Clubs in the life of the College, they seem a curious target for such sustained reformist zeal. It is hard to resist the suspicion that a pinch of self-righteousness and a dollop of envy are amongst the campaigners' motivations...
...mellow, and no one I know would call me laid back. I am possessed, however, of an insatiable zeal for education. And it was in this spirit that I traveled with friends to the Worcester Centrum in early November to hear the Grateful Dead...