Word: zealotous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Doctrine of Overriding Outrage also rests on the submerged premise that since the established power owns the microphone and podium, the process of so-called free speech is part of the problem, not the solution. The heckling zealot wishes to reroute the entire discussion: hijack the issue and force it to a wilder jurisdiction. Hecklers take ideas hostage...
...representative on the SALT negotiating team because he feared the Watergate-obsessed Nixon Administration might concede too much, he and Rostow helped form the hard-line Committee on the Present Danger to lobby against the SALT II treaty and for bigger defense budgets. But he is not an unreasoning zealot. Indeed, even his critics, on the left and the right, admit Nitze's pragmatism and acute intellectual power...
Jobs turned from life science to applied technology. Wozniak and some other friends gravitated toward an outfit called the Homebrew Computer Club in 1975, and Jobs would occasionally drop by. Wozniak was the computer zealot, the kind of guy who can see a sonnet in a circuit. What Jobs saw was profit. At convocations of the Homebrew, Jobs showed scant interest in the fine points of design, but he was enthusiastic about selling the machines Wozniak was making...
Khomeini sends forth a zealot...
...into the street and greet the world. But what about that Hare Krishna in the Square who has selected Harvard as his personal, proselytizing mission? Miss Manners informs us that Harvard can boldly go about the business of the day without concern for the feelings of the street zealot or the wrath of the Almighty...