Word: zealotism
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...suicidal quality of this fanaticism can be seen in the two men closest to Mossadegh in politics. Ayatulla Kashani is a zealot of Islam who has spent his life fighting the infidel British in Iraq and Iran. He controls the Teheran mobs (except those controlled by the Communists), and his terrorist organization assassinated Razmara. Hussein Makki controls the oil-rich province of Khuzistan, in which the Abadan refinery lies. When the British got out, Mossadegh put Makki in charge of the oil installations. Makki's view on oil: close up the wells, pull down the refinery and forget about...
...Esteemed Reichsführer." A far shriller and more demanding voice in Germany today is that of Adenauer's arch political enemy, Socialist Kurt Schumacher, 56. It is not the voice of cooperation, but the high-strung voice of a nationalist, a patriot gone zealot. Schumacher is a frail, cadaverous man of unexpected vigor. He gave his right arm to the Fatherland on the Russian front in World War I, lost his left leg following his ten years in Nazi concentration camps. In the Bundestag, where he holds great sway, he is a frightening performer. He jabs at every...
...year-old José Ferrer remains a frustrated Shakespearean actor. His only Broadway appearance in Shakespeare was as sharply etched Iago to paul Robeson's 1943 Othello. This week, with José Ferrer Presents Shakespeare (Sun. 10 p.m.) over Manhattan's station WNEW, he got a zealot's chance to share his bardolatry with a wide audience...
...Antonio, Conductor Alessandro will have a tradition to carry on, but it should come easy. Max Reiter was a zealot for contemporary music; so is Alessandro. With his Oklahomans last year, Alessandro put on a 13-week series of music by 20th Century composers...
...accuser, one Benjamin Freedman, was a peculiar and disgruntled zealot-a self-styled "excommunicated Jew" who had given financial backing to a wild-eyed, anti-Semitic hate sheet. At his instigation the Senate Armed Services Committee solemnly called a hearing, put an ex-Communist named Ralph De Sola on the witness stand and listened to four hours of hair-raising testimony...