Word: zeal
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DeWitt knows her linguistic playfulness pushes the boundaries of what is ordinary and acceptable in fiction. She knows she risks trying her readers' patience. But, she says, "I had this proselytizing zeal." If she'd had her way with her editor, her book would have been even more multilayered; for instance, she wanted to include photo stills from The Seven Samurai, the Akira Kurosawa film that is integral to her story. "There was also originally something about counting in Arabic," she says, and bursts into peals of laughter. "I feel I exercised such restraint...
...there are two lessons to be learned from Black's book, both of which apply just as easily to today's business climate as to that of 50 years ago. "One, we have to recognize that technology is morally neutral, but how we use it is not. Two, professional zeal and bureaucratic opportunism can easily blind people. IBM wasn't interested in ideology or patriotism; when they developed those punch cards, the company had something they were very proud of. And so they closed their eyes and jumped in. They pretended not to see anything but the business opportunities ahead...
...Morrisons came to China more than a decade ago to spread that message of faith. Bruce arrived from New Orleans, where he had studied forestry at Louisiana State University. Valori came from a family in Iowa filled with evangelical zeal: one sister was spreading the gospel in materialistic Hong Kong, another in war-ravaged Bosnia. But China's 1.3 billion souls have always been a big lure for evangelists, and the Morrisons eventually set up a home in Wuhan, a river-port city with a long missionary tradition. Bruce taught English at a local institute and Valori home-schooled...
...fund raising to run an extensive volunteer home-care program in KwaZulu-Natal. And Busi Magwazi, who, along with dozens of others, tends the sick for nothing in the Durban-based Sinoziso project. And Patricia Bakwinya, who started her Shining Stars orphan-care program in Francistown with her own zeal and no money, to help youngsters like Tsepho Phale. And countless individuals who give their time and devotion to ease southern Africa's plight...
...deep silence that makes African leaders and societies want to deny the problem, the corruption and incompetence that render them helpless is something the West cannot fix. But the fact that they are poor is not. The wealthy world must help with its zeal and its cash if southern Africa is ever to be freed of the AIDS plague...