Word: zealots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...save the world and end up wreaking more havoc than happiness. The most memorable and, sadly, the most prescient example of this theme came in Greene's The Quiet American, about Vietnam in the days when the Americans were still only supplying arms to the French. The reformist zealot there was a clean-cut, self-serious American adviser named Pyle who was bent on saving the Vietnamese for Democracy--by strategically wiping them out--and took as his bible the cold-warring treatises of an Ivy League academic named York Harding (Walt Rostow? Probably; it was too early...
...host of the zany NBC's Saturday Night Live. In one routine he deadpanned his way through a comic turn satirizing none other than Ralph Nader. The effort backfired in one respect: though the skit was indeed amusing, Nader portrayed himself altogether too accurately as a driven zealot. Congressmen agree that Nader does his homework, but they are repelled by his insistence that his position is the only morally right one. Says Representative David Obey, Wisconsin Democrat: "Members are just fed up with being equated with evil if they vote against Nader...
...himself is no zealot, nor is he especially religious. But his father Aaron won a Medal of Honor in the Battle of the Wilderness, and young Seth is passionately idealistic about the U.S. The Jewish virtues (as he sees them) of intelligence, industry and warmth are precisely those of the American character, Seth feels. The anti-Semitism that persists is a dwindling residue from the Old World, and what is important is that Jews can take their part in U.S. society with out apology or fearfulness...
Born-Again Christian Charles Colson can't help describing his new friendship with Eldridge Cleaver in biblical terms: "We're like Matthew the tax collector and Simon the Zealot, two unlikely people who came together loving one another." Jokes Cleaver: "He's the kind of man I used to put on my dart board." Colson, 45, a former White House aide who served seven months in jail for his part in Watergate, and Cleaver, 41, who still faces a murder rap for his part in a 1968 Black Panther Shootout, met a year ago at a religious...
Washington's most serious problem is with its strongest ally, West Germany. Schmidt regards Carter as some kind of misguided zealot. The Chancellor has charged that the President was much too categorical in his SALT proposals, leaving Brezhnev little room for negotiation. Schmidt further feels that Washington's grapeshot human rights drive may be less effective in helping dissenters in Communist countries than would quiet diplomatic pressure in the Kissinger fashion. What deeply concerns him among other things is that deterioration in East-West relations could jeopardize the continuing emigration of ethnic Germans from Poland and the U.S.S.R...