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Hervé has been a fierce competitor ever since. Between 1957 and 1964, in fact, he was suspended nine times in the U.S. and Canada for various rule infractions committed in his zeal to win. The biggest blow came in 1965 when the U.S. Trotting Association lifted his license for "repeated violations"-cutting off other drivers, for example, and betting on races. Stunned, Filion reformed and was eventually reinstated by the U.S.T.A. Ever since he has performed like a man possessed. Last summer he was upended in a nasty three-sulky accident that left him with torn shoulder ligaments...
...that time was split between the Rockefeller and Goldwater wings, and Weinberger favored Rockefeller. Conservative Ronald Reagan appointed him state finance director in 1968, even though the Governor's campaign financiers thought Cap entirely too liberal. But Weinberger set about slashing California's budget with such zeal that one Reagan aide called him "more Catholic than the Pope"; some of his Democratic enemies accused him of selling out his liberal principles, since Reagan's main targets were welfare and education spending...
...wine makers until 1940, when they acquired bottlers in Los Angeles and New Orleans and attempted nationwide marketing for their early sherries and muscatels. They recruited their own salesmen and instructed them to see that their product gained a prominent position on liquor-store shelves. The salesmen's zeal gave the company a reputation for ruthlessness. Some oldtimers say that teams of Gallo men would stride into a store and tough-talk the proprietor into keeping competitors' wine on less visible shelves. Others insist that Gallo salesmen merely used economic incentives, such as offering a month...
...which no one wanted, but which the rhetoric seemed to necessitate." Not only the rhetoric of ritualistic anti-Communism but the rhetoric of machismo: the compensatory swagger of the liberal, the intellectual, to demonstrate he was a Realpolitik he-man by the American code. Here Halberstam simplifies in his zeal to give history a firm story line. He is more thoroughly convincing when he depicts what might be called the debacle of drift...
...recent address to his freshman class entitled "The Decade of Short Cuts," Yale President Kingman Brewster Jr. cited three ways in which some students of the last decade sought to find exhilaration and inject zeal into under graduate life. One was the demand for "relevance," another was the glorification of the "happening" ("anything was good as long as it expressed the real, now self"), and the third was "trashing," an ugly resort to violence. Brewster concluded that despite a residue of change, some of it beneficial, these "patent medicines" bred disillusionment and fostered a cult of unreason. Such attitudes left...