Word: zealotism
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...true martyr seeks martyrdom. Robert Gould Shaw loved music and drawing, spoke German and Spanish easily, dropped out of Harvard to try his hand at business (the Shaws had grown rich in the China trade). He was a serious youth but no zealot. Before the first Confederate shell hit Fort Sumter, however, Shaw had already enlisted. When Andrew offered him command of the black 54th, he wrote back saying he lacked experience. He was only 25. Then he sent a countermanding telegram of acceptance. "Now I feel ready to die," said his proud mother, a dedicated abolitionist...
...fact, Kemp may have misunderstood what the President was proposing. (Said one White House aide: "There are worse things than having daylight between this Administration and Jack Kemp." Kemp is widely regarded as a tax-slashing zealot.) For a married couple, the 50% rate now applies only to that portion of taxable income above $60,000 a year. Under the President's plan, the 50% rate by 1984 would apply only to taxable income exceeding $215,000-a level of wealth claimed on only three-hundredths of 1% of all tax returns, according to Treasury Secretary Donald Regan...
...Shepard, better known as a playwright than as an actor, successfully portrays Cal's violent transition from skeptic to zealot. Shepard's brooding, understated intensity adds a dash of noir to the film...
...object of that gossip steps forward to remind the rumormonger of such a thing, that person becomes an enemy. As long as rumor remains fuzzy, it can be almost wistful. But when confronted openly, the rumormonger suddenly feels that he must truly believe what he has merely been fantasizing. Zealot is pitted against zealot. Carnage ensues...
...slices the air with his hands as he talks, shaping some invisible sculpture of an idea, one that he sees with absolute clarity. His head does not move, nor his eyes. Joe Restic is talking about his Multiflex offense, a subject he attacks with the fervor of a zealot...