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...lack in compassionate zeal? Or how shall hearts move with...
...Penitentes, a lay society of obscure medieval origin, are found from Texas to California among the Spanish-speaking Catholics. During the Golden Age of New Mexican flagellation (1850-90), the Penitentes' zeal bred scandalous tales of actual crucifixions, often fatal, among members. In 1889 the Catholic archbishop of Santa Fe banned the cult as barbaric. It now enjoys clerical toleration. Weakened but persistent, the Penitentes retreated to remote villages, continued their Holy Week rites, but stood by with carbines to ward off nosy gringos who were baffled but fascinated by the twin Spanish traits: a passionate sense...
...plotted for it in 1914. When he met Banker Straight and his wife on an ocean crossing, the shy, religiously intellectual Croly had a challenging book on political philosophy to his credit (The Promise of American Life), and a burning desire to run a liberal magazine. Impressed by his zeal, the Straights straightway became his converts and backers. His object: "Less to inform or entertain [my] readers than to start little insurrections in the realm of their convictions...
Wonderful Things. In a little office in Rome, dark-browed, bright-eyed Paladino spoke like a man with a mission. At 42, he is still a lean and impecunious clerk; what his party lacks in funds is made up by individual zeal. "Except for a few hours for eating and sleeping," he says, "I dedicate every minute in which I am free from statistics to the movement...
...onetime rabid isolationist reaffirmed his faith in a United Nations: "I do not share the melancholy pessimism heard in some quarters." Some phases of the London record, of course, were disappointing: "I confess that in this first meeting of the United Nations I missed the uplifting and sustaining zeal for a great, crusading, moral cause which seemed to imbue the earlier Charter sessions at San Francisco." He had sensed "a tendency to relapse into power politics ... to use the United Nations as a self-serving tribune rather than as a tribunal...