Word: zealotism
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...point of view, abound. Murillo's Christ After the Flagellation (overleaf) has a tragic, mystic quality. On the other hand, Zurbaran's St. Francis Praying, painted around 1650, is a surprisingly sophisticated example of religious preoccupation; St. Francis seems almost like a zealot interrupted at prayer and, like many old Spanish works, the picture looks surprisingly modern...
Still, the officer may have a point; the man should have shaved. And Goodman presses it like the single-minded zealot he is. He calls himself an anarchist-which itself has an old-fashioned ring. He wants to break up America's big corporations and other mammoth institutions because they have dehumanized life and robbed the individual of his power of decision and sense of purpose. Overorganization, Goodman charges, has dammed up the natural instincts of human beings, which, if released, would make the world a better place. No other American writer of the present time-either...
Fabled Rages. Living alumni still shiver at the memory of lean, eagle-beaked Alfred E. Stearns, the devout, athletic zealot who ruled Andover for 30 years prior to 1933. Stearns hired the fabled Latinist Georgie Hinman, who jabbed penknives into his wooden leg, chewed pencils in half, caromed erasers off thick skulls, and made students flush bad translations down the toilets. Yet it was also Stearns who steered Andover toward opulence. In 1908 he took over the seminary's buildings when that institution fell on bad times and slunk off to Harvard. He raised $1,000,000 for teachers...
...Prayer for a Miracle. A zealot who scorned careful preparation, Corti could find no experienced climber to go with him up the Eiger. He had to settle for a good-natured, 44-year-old factory worker, Stefano Longhi, who had never made a strenuous climb. Without so much as glancing at a map of the route, Corti and Longhi impetuously started climbing. Part way up they met two Germans also making the climb and joined forces. Trouble began. One of the Germans developed stomach cramps, and Longhi ran out of breath...
...pennies as a carnival sharpshooter. Scott agrees to go along, and suggests a third partner, a sassy, fist-fast, trigger-quicker kid (Ronald Starr). The trio shortly becomes a quartet, as a naive but personable girl (Mariette Hartley) decides to swap the whip-hand threats of her religious zealot father for the ring-finger promises of a beau up at Coarse Gold...