Word: zeal
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...audience that froze the night, the mostly young, carefully dressed crowd of black men, women and children who had clearly come home to Brother Farrakhan. Discount some of their zeal as a thumb-your-nose-at-Whitey exercise. Discount some as exuberance or hysteria in numbers. Still, the Garden heaved with hatred. If you closed your eyes you could picture all the hate mobs ever--Khomeini's mob, Kahane's mob. Their hatred was palpable, enormous. It changed reality. Suddenly the crowd was in the millions, encompassing the living and the dead...
...claustrophobic individual, the contemporary southern syndrome of small town suffocation. In Tuna, matters like segregation, Christian biology, and textbook censorship aren't issues--they're fact, as fundamental as hunting season and hell. The town's moral crusades attack hippies, the liberal press, and literary art with a zeal that makes the Conservative Club look tolerant...
...individuals. The rapid growth of student government in the form of the the Undergraduate Council, to take another example, and the multiplication of its functions surely represents one of the most salient features of undergraduate life in recent years while student representation on University committees increases annually. Sometimes this zeal for government spills over into areas not directly related to student affairs, such as the current efforts to tell the University where to put its endowment dollars. Why, then, in light of our passion for self-government, should we reject an honor code which is nothing if not an extension...
Shevardnadze's zeal is well remembered by Soviet Physician Galina Nikolayevna Borodin, a San Francisco-based emigre who lived in the party secretary's household near Tbilisi between 1973 and 1977. Borodin recalls that in the '60s and early '70s, Georgia was so rife with corruption that the only way to gain entrance to the republic's prestigious Medical Institute was to bribe the rector. "Before Shevardnadze," Borodin says, "everything could be bought or sold." She adds, "He was very oppressive, but he oppressed people fairly." Shevardnadze's toughness earned him some enemies. Borodin recalls an assassination attempt...
...Mesabi Iron Range. The narrative conspicuously lacks pretension, prefering a plain-spoken unselfconscious style that cares little for cosmetic surfaces. Unlike last year's Country, Wildrose's authenticity relies less on cultural drama than on a coarse documentary-like artlessness that is assaulting at times with its "realistic" zeal. Instead of Jessica Lange courageously battling hurricanes and mortgage collectors in western-chic jeans, one has a homely June going off to the mines in her hardhat and baggy overalls. No glamorous hardships here...