Word: zealotism
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Hazarding Revenge. The regime's riposte was quick. Snapped a party zealot: "What the party needs is unity and not intellectuals who produce neither bread nor steel but only chitchat." Six of the more outspoken students were suspended from the university, and Kolakowski was expelled from the party and accused of a long list of "crimes" including having "sat down to tea with Cardinal Wyszynski," the Polish primate, and having had a prolonged meeting with American Professor Zbigniew Brzezinski of Columbia University. When a group of Poland's leading artists and writers wrote letters to the Politburo demanding...
...otherwise I would have remained only an assistant, a cog, something soulless." Now he disclaimed responsibility, insisted that he had indeed been a cog, merely transmitting orders. But the evidence was crushing that he had acted, as witnesses put it, as "the great forwarding agent of death," the efficient zealot who directed the action phases of "the final solution...
...years it has been an unwritten rule, perfectly understandable although rather archaic, that the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra must not perform the works of German Composer Richard Wagner. Richard Strauss was verboten as well until 1953, when Violinist Jascha Heifetz played a Strauss sonata -a performance that later moved a zealot to clout him on the right wrist with an iron bar outside his hotel. Now the orchestra's directors have decided that "the time has come for a change . . . because of the paramount demands of freedom of art." So, presumably, Wagner and Strauss will now be heard in Israel...
Describing the choice in the presidential election as one between "a highly skilled professional politician and a zealot," Day spent most of his time attacking Barry Goldwater as "unrealistic and insensitive to human needs...
...thesis of Biographer Prawdin that the Soviet academicians of the '20s were right about Nechaev: Lenin indeed owed as much to this peasant zealot as he did to the philosopher Marx. He convincingly argues that Stalin (who came closer than any other socialist to the ideal of absolute tyranny in the name of absolute freedom) was right in suppressing Nechaev on Nechaev's own principle that the truth should not be known except to the elite...