Word: zealots
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Somehow, I seem to be the only one in the whole huddled mass of worn, jaded travelers that shuttles routinely from city to city who still seems excited about air travel. Mention "Orville and Wilbur," and most people think of a popcorn zealot and a talkative pig. I'm the only one who can't forget--and who can't take flying for granted...
COVER: The Making of a Zealot...
...will say that I basically agree with his assessment of Operation Rescue as a hypocritical Christian zealot, terrorist organization whose members have nothing better to do with their lives other than harass the workers, doctors, and patients (and their families) of clinics who perform abortions. As a whole, the term "anti-abortion" correctly fits O.R. and any other group dedicated to over-turning Roe v. Wade because their goal is to stop abortions (often at whatever the cost, as the murder of Dr. David Gunn demonstrated...
Even more irresponsible and annoying is Jong's treatment of the "feminist," a term she almost always follows with "zealot" and applies without distinction to such diverse thinkers as Kate Millett, Germaine Greet and Andrea Dworkin. Jong says that she "respect[s] the courage of those feminists who have come forward to illuminate the nature of pornography against women," but she shows no consciousness of the evolving nature of that illumination and makes no effort to convey the complexity of the American feminist debate on pornography. Complicated theoretical issues are dismissed with reductive summaries: "The pen, as so many feminist...
...author has resurrected a historical figure, John Harvey Kellogg, the inventor of cornflakes and founder of a spa for health faddists that he ran at Battle Creek, Michigan, in 1907 and 1908. As Boyle caricatures him, Kellogg was half charlatan and half believing zealot, an early whooper-up of overnourished America's chronic food fear. Rigid vegetarianism, fasting, sexual abstinence and abdominal massage were among his nostrums. But his favorite was "colonic irrigation" -- enemas administered as often as five times...