Word: zealots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...Mercury cause is right down Airforceman McCrary's alley: "Sink the Navy." An air-power zealot, he won a public-relations victory for the A.A.F. with his "flying circus" that sped correspondents into Shanghai before the surrender, into Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the wake of the atomic bombs...
...with its inventor, Charles Kay Ogden, a fellow scholar at the University of Cambridge, on a tortuous book on semantics, called The Meaning of Meaning. Since then he has spent a good deal of time globe-trotting as Basic's chief agitator, wearing the benign smile of a zealot who is content with his life's work. When war broke out, he was at Harvard on a Rockefeller grant as a roving researcher on the problems of the English language. A year ago he was made a professor, but he still spends more time working on Basic than...
...father and his 18-year-old son-the father a scholar, the son a filial zealot-set out to record the folk songs of the U.S. When John Lomax had broken his son to the trail, young Alan went on alone. Between them the Lomaxes recorded 10,000 songs, many of which had never been heard more than five miles from the prisons, corrals or lumber camps where the Lomaxes found them...