Word: zealotism
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Lopsided Philanthropy. Hixson draws an understanding portrait of Summerlin, a charming, disorganized South Carolinian who could never get his lab in order or his correspondence answered. He paints a somewhat more ambiguous picture of Good, a zealot who starts his working days in the predawn hours when most of his colleagues are asleep. Hixson recognizes that Good, who combines unbridled enthusiasm with a flair for publicity, may have contributed to a feeling by Summerlin that he would be letting S.K.I, down if his experiments flopped...
...Arabs and blacks. It begged Paris not to abandon it, and the French National Assembly decided that the other three islands could go their way but Mayotte could wave the tricolor just as long as it wanted to. Last month Comoro's Chief Minister Ahmed Abdallah, a Moslem zealot, declared unilateral independence for all the islands, Mayotte included...
Lewontin said yesterday he expects the debate to cover "questions of genetics and IQ and other related subjects." He said the "genetics of human behavior is irrelevant" and called Davis a "Zealot for the genetical explanation for everything...
...Israel, which had regarded Faisal as an anti-Jewish zealot who financed Arab wars and terrorism, there was neither joy nor mourning but a noticeable sense of relief at the unexpected death of a powerful enemy. "A Jew-hating Arab king," declared the Tel Aviv religious daily Hatzofeh, "has been removed from the stage." Most Israelis obviously hoped that the change in Saudi leadership would create a period of instability for the Arab states, thereby causing them to become more preoccupied with their own problems and less concerned with Israel for a while...
...people fall off horses or into mud puddles, scramble about trying to have a picnic on a battlement, or try to duel on an icy river where they cannot even stand up, the reason is not that the director finds pratfalls irresistible. Instead, each and every character is a zealot, convinced not only that whatever cause he happens to be serving will change the course of human affairs for the better but that he is absolutely vital to that cause's success. The musketeers (Michael York, Oliver Reed, Richard Chamberlain, Frank Finlay), for example, never stop for a moment...