Word: zealotism
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...applied to police for permission to burn Uncle Sam in effigy in front of the U.S. embassy. Police consented, ordered protective barricades placed around the embassy building, and assigned a detail of cops to march along with the students. It was all meant to be orderly, but then a zealot kicked over a barricade. With that, the biggest anti-U.S. riot in Burmese history was on. Countless embassy windows were shattered, and the embassy walls besmeared with paint. Burmese police and troops fired into the crowd. When the smoke cleared, two demonstrators were dead, 53 injured...
Study the Leader. Riding the mountain trails on a mule he called Martin Fierro,* Che puffed endless cigars and pondered his leader. He saw Castro clearly as an inspired and inspiring zealot, brimming with a disorganized flood of liberal ideals, incapable of accepting criticism, dependent on others to put his schemes into action. Che adapted himself to Castro. He never contradicted Castro in public. Allowing Fidel to take credit for Guevara accomplishments, he carefully avoided bruising the massive Castro ego. Che even wrote a "Rhapsody to Fidel...
...tough and crooked former army sergeant, Fulgencio Batista. Che proposed to nationalize industry and agriculture, to reorganize that traditional prop of Cuban political power, the army, and to cut Cuba's historic ties with the U.S. With the cold-eyed dedication of a Marxist zealot, Che meant to concentrate and hold power until the old system was irreparably destroyed. First he had to convince Fidel...
Such a quarry stirs the huchen zealot to Ahab-like fanaticism. In summer he tramps miles through rough mountain terrain, sits for hours on the edge of deep mountain pools watching for the sudden, furious boil that marks the home of a lurking huchen. Come fall, he fashions a huchen Topf-a hook hidden in a clump of colored leather strings that his fish may mistake for a small school of river lampreys. By winter, he is so eager to have at his prey that he willingly pays $5 each day for a license, stalks off to battle with...
Died. Joseph Revai, 61, Hungarian Communist zealot and wily theoretician, Minister of People's Culture (1949-53), who provided ideology for Hungary's Stalinist Boss Matyas Rakosi and promoted the fierce attack on Cardinal Mindszenty and other religious leaders, skipped to Russia when the 1956 revolt began but returned as soon as it was over to help execute the revolutionaries; in Budapest, Hungary...