Word: zealotism
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...crabby, Bible-spouting zealot who already owned ten small dailies from Santa Ana, Calif. to Pampa, Texas, Ohio-born Publisher Hoiles, now 78, was famed for his ultrareactionary political philosophy and his one-man campaign against a series of things he wrapped up under one label: socialism. By Hoiles's definition, socialistic institutions include: public schools, churches, public libraries, taxes, majority rule, highways, unions, and the National Association of Manufacturers...
...eyes open and the tape recorder of her memory turned on. Real names drop like ripe plums-Nehru, H. G. Wells, Anthony Eden, Bernard Shaw-and the fictional ones seem to be readily guessable. What emerges is a wickedly witty portrait of an atheistic, humanist household headed by a zealot father who devoutly believes that religion is "nothing but a means of maintaining injustice, corruption and poverty," and a euphoric mother who dismisses all that sort of thing as "Bloomsbury talk." But the narrator's main concern is love, and the way in which it has come...
...greens . . ." Some were writers of great books, incomprehensibly without publishers. Another merely "smelled of genius." Another was writing "a chthonian [i.e., from the nether world] drama mirroring the nightmare," etc. Even the man who might put in sewers would do so with a "somnambulistic clairvoyance." Finally there is the zealot nitwit who asks Miller: "What makes the waves go up and down? Can you answer that...
Harold Steele, a retired poultry farmer of 63 who lives in the lovely Malvern Hills of western England, last week kissed his wife and three children goodbye and set off, full of zealot's fire, ready to risk his life...
...puerile and even despicable figure-the more so because these aspects of his character remained unchanged throughout his long life. But in a sense U.S. readers will recognize the type better than the British ever did-the second-generation citizen who despises the emigrants of other nations, the zealot of a minority religion, the betwixt-and-between man who is both of and not of his adopted country...