Word: zealotism
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...today, for all the attacks on him as a has-been, Meany is in a stronger position than ever before. When a zealot in the Nixon Administration suggested that labor leaders should be required to retire at 70, Meany, who is 77, simply laughed. He is too secure and having too good a time as president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. to worry about such a possibility. The troubled economy has made him something of a prophet, since he was urging price and wage controls long before they were imposed. Whatever they may privately think of him, the Democrats are counting...
...vulgar." The 19th century skeptic Swinburne had a character say of Jesus, "O pale Galilean; the world has grown grey from thy breath." D.H. Lawrence equated the Resurrection with Jesus' awakening sexual desire. In the 1960s, S.G.F. Brandon saw the Nazarene as a sympathizer of the 1st century's Zealot guerrillas...
...Unlikely Zealot. For the past two years, the Fox has been the scourge of those he considers polluters in Illinois' Kane County, west of Chicago. He has plugged offending sewers, capped spewing chimneys, left ripe skunks on the suburban doorsteps of company executives. At the scene of every caper, he leaves a note explaining that the particular victim is getting back a bit of his own for defiling the environment...
...unlikely zealot. Though he would not reveal his identity, he talked over the telephone last week with TIME Correspondent Sam Iker about his crusade. Apparently a quiet-spoken Kane County Republican, the Fox explained that he is an enthusiastic fisherman and hunter who remembers when Kane County was unspoiled. "I do a lot of walking," he said. "I got tired of watching the smoke and the filth and the little streams dying one by one. A man ought to be able to drink from a stream when he's thirsty or take his son out fishing. Finally, I decided...
...With a zealot's burning eyes and a full beard, he encouraged comparison with artistic notions of Jesus; yet he found Christianity a perversion of man's finest instincts. "My great religion," declared D.H. Lawrence, "is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect." But his books are models of calculation, the grown-up products of the scholarship boy who was a great exam taker. Although Lawrence celebrated the phallus and sang of the masculine principle, his every work is marked by an almost feminine hysteria that nags as it argues...