Word: zealots
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...nuclear powered) and rich, with prosperity to be shared among all classes, not just the élite. Still, the streets of Tehran's better-off northern districts were like a ghost town full of zombies, with residents in shock over the accession of a little-known revolutionary and Islamic zealot. "We are doomed," said Nasser Soroudi, 33, a salesman at a photo shop. He, like many of his countrymen, believes that the new President will turn their country into "Taliban-land...
...history that hews to the most literal version of biblical creationism. Nestled close to the 67-ft.-tall Christ of the Ozarks statue, the museum is the latest addition to a theological theme park established almost four decades ago by the late Gerald L. K. Smith, a right-wing zealot and notorious anti-Semite. So if you go there, you will walk through exhibits depicting Eden and the Tower of Babel and learn that all life on Earth was created at one stroke about 6,000 years ago (no mention of evolution), that dinosaurs and humans walked the earth...
...seems a shame to inhibit a good ranter. But ranting is not always entertaining. Often it is embarrassing, even shaming. Sometimes, if it issues forth from a politician or religious zealot with ambitions, it becomes sinister. The U.S. has a fairly rich tradition of ranters, from Thomas Paine to Joseph McCarthy to Spiro Agnew (whose ranting was actually a satire on the form) to Louis Farrakhan. A citizen named Peter Muggins caught the essense of the rant in an intense if repetitious letter to Abraham Lincoln: "God damn your god damned old hellfired god damned soul to hell...
...Sontag's Style Author, intellectual and cultural critic Susan Sontag, who died at the end of December [MILESTONES, Jan. 10], described herself as a "zealot of seriousness." Her writing style and serious approach were examined by TIME almost 36 years ago when her second collection of essays, Styles of Radical Will, was published...
Klein wrote that "No one really knows which President Bush will show up on Jan. 20 to begin his second term." Some do--it will be the same arrogant, self-impressed zealot of the past four years. But playground bullies eventually get their just deserts, and now it's going to be Bush's turn. He has alienated virtually all our allies and enraged fully half of the voters. Who is on his side? Radical conservatives and Evangelicals--not a lot of company when most of the world is against you. To paraphrase Bette Davis: Fasten your seat belt...