Word: zealots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Unlikely Zealot. For the past two years, the Fox has been the scourge of those he considers polluters in Illinois' Kane County, west of Chicago. He has plugged offending sewers, capped spewing chimneys, left ripe skunks on the suburban doorsteps of company executives. At the scene of every caper, he leaves a note explaining that the particular victim is getting back a bit of his own for defiling the environment...
...unlikely zealot. Though he would not reveal his identity, he talked over the telephone last week with TIME Correspondent Sam Iker about his crusade. Apparently a quiet-spoken Kane County Republican, the Fox explained that he is an enthusiastic fisherman and hunter who remembers when Kane County was unspoiled. "I do a lot of walking," he said. "I got tired of watching the smoke and the filth and the little streams dying one by one. A man ought to be able to drink from a stream when he's thirsty or take his son out fishing. Finally, I decided...
...With a zealot's burning eyes and a full beard, he encouraged comparison with artistic notions of Jesus; yet he found Christianity a perversion of man's finest instincts. "My great religion," declared D.H. Lawrence, "is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect." But his books are models of calculation, the grown-up products of the scholarship boy who was a great exam taker. Although Lawrence celebrated the phallus and sang of the masculine principle, his every work is marked by an almost feminine hysteria that nags as it argues...
...Williamson has something more that sets him apart from almost every other actor. He is a Scot, and every inch the child of John Knox out of Calvin. What he puts into Hamlet and all the other parts that he has played is the passionate intensity of a religious zealot. This makes him a metaphysical actor who asks people to look into the abyss of being. Most people prefer to walk the safe 9-to-5 plank of their daily lives and never look over the edge at fate...