Word: zealousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lebowitz's catalog of boorishnesses is somewhat eclectic: zealous nonsmokers, people who go to work with colds, waiters who introduce themselves before handing out menus. Worst of all, says Lebowitz, who once drove a cab, are cab drivers. Says she: "Manners may be too polite a word. Many cab drivers just seem to be mildly insane. I would rather pay and just let the guy sit in the back while I drive...
...times to a crowd of tens of thousands that cheered as he led the Columbus Day parade up Fifth Avenue. In Cincinnati the next day, he swung a baseball bat after Ohio Governor Richard Celeste introduced him to another enthusiastic crowd as "the Louisville Slugger," a term the most zealous Democrat would not have dreamed of using before the debate in that Kentucky city. In Columbus later in the week, Mondale broke into a litany of sentences addressed to the President that began "You may think . . ."; after each the crowd, picking up a line from the debate, joined...
...Experience, For Currier." Second place, for pushing Our Boys In Uniform in a Harvard Context, to the Leverett House candidate whose face fills in for Uncle Sam in a remake of the famous World War II "I Want You" recruiting poster. This candidate also snags the Richard M. Nixon Zealous Reelection Campaign Effort Award. His poster, according to a note on the bottom, is "paid for by the Leverett House Committee to Re-elect...
Walter Mondale is correct when he maintains this is a pivotal election. Yet what sort of precedents we set on issues are no more important than those we set on style. Political activism is healthy and commendable: zealous vulgarity and personal exploitation in the name of victory are not. And that is something that both parties--regardless of who wins in November--need to make clear...
...hundreds of arrests, occasional incidents of torture and other forms of harassment since mid-1983 constitute the first sweeping crackdown against Christian activity since the Communist regime instituted a measure of toleration in 1979. The repression is aimed especially at a zealous Protestant revival occurring among the unsanctioned house churches, which are in increasing conflict with the government-approved Protestant organizations. Only last week, for the first time, a government newspaper confirmed the existence of a Protestant revival "fever...