Word: zealotism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...puerile and even despicable figure-the more so because these aspects of his character remained unchanged throughout his long life. But in a sense U.S. readers will recognize the type better than the British ever did-the second-generation citizen who despises the emigrants of other nations, the zealot of a minority religion, the betwixt-and-between man who is both of and not of his adopted country...
...toured the Navy's far-flung fleets and shore bases, learned to be a persuasive spokesman for the Navy's hopes and ambitions in the jet-missile age and an ardent defender of its more venturesome officers. But Thomas, World War I naval aviator, was no Navy zealot. He paid proper heed to his civilian bosses, Defense Secretary Charles Wilson and President Eisenhower, was equally forceful in passing the civilian word back to the Navy. Result: Charlie Thomas ably kept the Navy on course as it steamed at flank speed into the heady age of nuclear submarines, larger...
...prevailing conflict of ideas. In the books of the '20s the disenchanted and emancipated young confronted their hypocritical elders. In the '30s the worker at the barricades shook his fist at the bloated capitalist. In the '40s the man of freedom locked wills with the totalitarian zealot. In the '50s the basic confrontation - which all along has preoccupied writers, including W. H. Auden, Graham Greene. T. S. Eliot-may well be that of the psychiatrist and the man of God. Germany's Friedrich Deich. 49, is not professionally up to the literary company his idea...
...loudspeakers of Egypt shrilled a voice, urgent, strident, and sharply reminiscent of the days in the early 1930s when another mustached zealot ranted and raved his way across the world stage. The decision of Egypt's 38-year-old President Nasser to seize the Suez Canal, his dire prophecy of an Arab empire stretching from the Persian Gulf to the Atlantic, his incitement to Algerians to rise up against the French-all these were summonses to the diplomats of Foggy Bottom and their opposite numbers in Whitehall and the Quai d'Orsay to consider, consult...
According to Furnas, Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, the pious New England zealot was "small personally as well as physically, glib, lazy-minded, a common denominator of millions of the brains and consciences of her time." The key "crimes" of which he accuses her are 1) knowing little or nothing of the South and of how slavery operated, 2) promoting racial stereotypes, e.g., Topsy, the comical waif, faithful, cheek-turning Tom, 3) talking genetic nonsense about the "African race," 4) implying that a Negro's taste for freedom and education grow proportionately to his infusions of "white blood." With...