Word: zeal
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Missionary Zeal...
...restore order in Matabeleland, the Mugabe government last August launched Operation Octopus, an offensive by seven army battalions that netted 450 suspects. But in their zeal to root out dissidents, the soldiers roughed up many of the Ndebeles, increasing the tribe's hostility toward the Mugabe government. Last summer saboteurs wrecked 13 planes, about 25% of Zimbabwe's air force, while ZIPRA rebels abducted six tourists (two Americans, two British and two Australians) returning from a trip to Victoria Falls. Nkomo disavowed the crimes and traveled through Matabeleland urging the locals to aid in the hunt...
...same time, that it is hard to imagine anyone else in the role. She plays Susan Traherne, who as a girl of 17 was dropped behind German lines in France to work as a British courier. The character is never able to recapture the purity of her wartime zeal. As the play follows her through the next 20 years, shifting backward and forward through time, her personality hardens into madness, and she brings ruin not only to herself but her husband, who is movingly played by Edward Herrmann...
...Bethlehem but Christ's Crucifixion, complete with catsup for blood. When it was over, a Dani chief explained, "Why not? Jesus was born to die for us on the Cross, so it's all the same thing." The Dillingers understood. It is difficult not to admire the zeal of the Dillingers and thousands of other missionaries who have dedicated their lives to the selfless yet ultimately self-fulfilling task of spreading Christ's word throughout the world. Nonetheless, despite their awareness of the religious arrogance of older missionaries, and their sensitivity to the customs and rituals...
...film (which runs over three hours) is itself the product of an unflagging will; it took him more than 20 years to finance and mount it (cost: about $22 million). In the circumstances it would be a pleasure to report that his directorial skill matched his producer's zeal, but Attenborough's style is traditional-stately. His imagery of the Indian landscape has a conventional handsomeness that is more predictable then enlivening. His staging of the many and brutal confrontations between Gandhi's followers and their official oppressors is competent and craftsmanlike, but the electricity that someone...