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...MORE THAN A fortnight, a small band of students has been barricading an administration building at Columbia Hoping to pressure the University to sell its stock in U.S. companies with South African operations, the zealous anti-apartheid activists chained shut Hamilton Hall'smain entrance and pitched camp on the building's steps...
Slotnick tartly described the outcome as the result of "a very zealous presentation." Morgenthau did not deny that his office had been more aggressive the second time around. "There wasn't new evidence," he said, "until we looked for it and found it." Goetz's lawyers insist that there was no actual new evidence...
...hundred years ago, and all that remains of him is paper," observes Braithwaite. "Paper, ideas, phrases, metaphors, structured prose which turns into sound. This, as it happens, is precisely what he would have wanted; it's only his admirers who sentimentally complain." Braithwaite makes a doughty admirer indeed: zealous, dogged, properly crazed. His particular madeleine, his key to the past, is a stuffed green parrot he discovers in a Flaubert museum in Rouen. The author borrowed a stuffed bird while he was writing A Simple Heart, in which a parrot is the last object of a gentle old woman...
Schuller's critics complain about both his method and his message. Conservative theologians maintain that he is mass-marketing an ersatz, individual-centered gospel that glosses over the troublesome doctrine of sin. Mainstream clergy are disturbed by Schuller's zealous push for conversion and his carnival-barker style. "His success-oriented message," says Congregationalist Browne Barr, former dean of the San Francisco Presbyterian Seminary, "is a happy optimism; it sells nicely, but it is just very shallow...
...imagination is better served by direct experience. Moore cites as his sources eyewitness reports and church records used by 19th century Historian Francis Parkman for his classic The Jesuits in North America. The novelist does not mention that it is hard to improve on this enthralling narrative, with its zealous clerics snatching souls from "the fangs of the 'Infernal Wolf' " and its droll view of the New World. "These Canadian tribes," wrote Parkman, "were undergoing that process of extermination, absorption, or expatriation, which, as there is reason to believe, had for many generations formed the gloomy and meaningless history...