Word: zeal
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...With a zeal that recalls some of the excesses of the Red Guards of China's Cultural Revolution, student committees have fired ideologically errant professors, and white-collar workers have searched their bosses' desks for pornography. The walls of buildings all over Tripoli sport huge cartoons, which serve as the popular primers of the revolution. One depicts two citizens opening up the cranium of a sleeping bureaucrat and complaining: "The revolution has not yet entered into his head...
...earlier days of his imprisonment for destroying draft records, the Rev. Philip Berrigan had strong views on the value of the Roman Catholic discipline of priestly celibacy. Married resisters, he noted, were not fully free to fight: they had to temper zeal with prudence and think of their families as well as their mission. Few of his fellow revolutionaries agreed with him more than Sister Elizabeth McAlister, an intense and idealistic admirer, who was convicted at Harrisburg last year, along with Berrigan, of smuggling letters into and out of a federal prison...
...Richard Nixon, who had ordered a phase-out of U.S. aid to Uganda in response to the expulsion of the country's Asians. "My dear brother," Amin wrote, "it is quite true that you have enough problems on your plate, and it is surprising that you have the zeal to add on fresh ones." Amin then ticked off some of the "problems": racial strife in the U.S., Viet Nam, the ITT fiasco in Chile, and, of course, Watergate: "At this moment you are uncomfortably sandwiched in that unfortunate affair." Big Daddy signed off with a heartfelt benison from...
...whatever his aides did, Nixon seemed to understand. They were men, he said, "whose zeal exceeded their judgment, and who may have done wrong in a cause they deeply believed to be right"?meaning his reelection. He implied that they may have acted in response to "the ugly mob violence" and "the excesses or expected excesses of the other side." He claimed that "it can be very easy under the intensive pressures of a campaign for even well-intentioned people to fall into shady tactics . . . and both of our great parties have been guilty of such tactics...
...honor of escorting Hirohito and the Empress Nagako to the U.S. Although Sato denied it, Japanese press reports maintained that, when he was turned down, the former Premier began stirring up doubts about the trip within the Imperial Household Agency, which manages Hirohito's official life with jealous zeal. In the end, the agency doomed the visit by ruling that it was miring the Emperor in unseemly controversy. There were also fears that Hirohito, who suffered a dizzy spell on a recent trip to Kyushu, would not be up to the rigors of a tour through...