Word: zealotism
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Avery Brundage, a tough-hided zealot, ignored the attacks and occupied himself with one of his own favorite games-writing a new Olympic definition for the word "amateur." In its final form, it read: ". . . one whose connection with sport is and has been solely for pleasure . . . and to whom sport is nothing more than recreation without financial gain of any kind, direct or indirect...
...editor is Graham Hutton, who headed Britain's wartime Midwest Information Office in Chicago, and wrote a book called Midwest at Noon. Just before Pearl Harbor, he outshouted a hostile meeting of 300 Bundists in Chicago to get Britain's case heard. He is a zealot for both his country and the U.S.-but doesn't want his paper to be shrill. The idea for Editor Hutton's magazine had come from an American, George Oakes, 37, Oxford-educated nephew of the late New York Times Publisher Adolph S. Ochs.* Oakes, as U.S. Editor, will cable...
...season its heavy fare of discussions, digests and editorials, there will be dashes of humor and satire, columns with titles like The Little Dog Laughed and Poor Adam's Almanack. "In short," says Clarence Streit, "Freedom & Union will be neither a timid, pallid neutral nor a narrow, humorless zealot." But it will try to count for something among "influential English-reading people" the world over...
Earl Albrecht had a right to talk like a zealot. Like his father, he had trained to be a Moravian missionary, in an evangelical Protestant church which claims to be the only one with more missionaries in the field than members at home. As a college student he accompanied a choir on that most evangelical of instruments, the trombone. In 1935 he went north to Alaska as a doctor...
Szigeti and Bartók spent some time together at Davos, Switzerland (the locale of The Magic Mountain) in 1928, while Bartók was treated for consumption and Szigeti recuperated from pneumonia. Szigeti remembers him as a slight, frail man with the burning blue eyes of a zealot, whose hair had turned white at 22. They later played in concerts together all over Europe. Said Szigeti: "He was an anachronism . . . who should have lived in the times of Haydn and Beethoven. He couldn't fit into big business...