Word: zeal
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...Solemn Zeal. Unlike Sartre's No Exit, where hell becomes a perpetuation of emotions suffered in life, Beckett's Play presents its posthumans as essentially bored, driven solely by an excessive urge to repeat themselves, as they gradually spill out what proves to be a conventional story about a man, his wife and his mistress. The urge is so strong, in fact, that the second half of the play is a verbatim recapitulation of the first half. Nonetheless, at the opening night curtain, a scattering of hisses and boos was obliterated by eager applause...
...where the municipal theater rivals the famed Gothic cathedral as a source of civic pride. Most German cities and towns think of their municipal theaters as U.S. cities regard their libraries-a permanent and serious public responsibility. There are 130 in West Germany. Audiences attend them with solemn zeal for Kultur, a turn of mind that ignores entertainment for the sake of education. The result is a theater unique in the world...
...Loss of Zeal...
...Germanic specialism. But though the war influenced the tone of the Redbook, it had nothing to do with the writers' faith in a liberal education, in the value of a purely collegiate educational experience. The great gift of the 1945 committee to Harvard, then, was not its missionary zeal but its establishment of a program for perpetuating instruction in the non-professional side of education...
Poor Politician? Not all Catholics appreciated John's problematic. Curia cardinals thought his exploration of Christian unity was a danger to the faith, and openly regarded a free, unmanaged council as a threat to their authority. "They are men of zeal, I am sure," John told a friend recently. "But they are not running the church. I am in charge, and I won't have anyone else trying to stop the momentum of the council's first session." Other Catholics rejected the spirit that led to his teaching encyclicals and the "opening to the East...