Word: zealousness
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Barry Commoner, Sc.D., ecologist. Kenneth Keniston, Sc.D., psychologist. Ravi Shankar, D.M., musician. Unrepentant captor of a whole generation of Americans; cantor for a new faith; nimble magician who conjures up symphonic sitars; zealous missionary of the great melodic and rhythmic traditions of India. Isaac Bashevis Singer, Lit.D., author...
...Washington last week for a special occasion: the dedication of the Tower of Faith, a 173-ft. freestanding bell tower at the denomination's showcase, the $10 million National Presbyterian Church and Center. The tower was dedicated to TIME'S founder, Henry Robinson Luce, a zealous, lifelong Presbyterian, who was a major driving force behind the center. McCord delivered an address entitled "The Faith of Henry Luce," which characterized Luce as "a Calvinist who understood life as an exodus and pilgrimage." Without specifically mentioning COCU, McCord touched on a key problem facing organized ecumenism. Typical of today...
BUSINESS executives are usually the most zealous supporters of a Republican President, but they show considerable reluctance about Richard Nixon. In 1968 the President won the votes of 84% of the officers (vicepresidential rank or higher) who run the nation's 500 largest industrial companies. He may well win as many this year, but largely because the executives see no acceptable alternative. James Howell, vice president of First National Bank of Boston, says that many of his high-ranking colleagues, "being typically New England businessmen, would like to support Nixon, but they find it a damn difficult...
...phase out Europe's tiny farms and replace them with larger, more efficient units; a modified version of his proposal was passed the day after he took over as president. Within the staid EEC bureaucracy, he also developed a well-founded reputation for bumptious indiscretion. As a zealous supranationalist who advocated closer European union, he fought a number of ideological battles with France's Gaullist representatives in the early '60s. For years it had been assumed that the hostility of the French had cost Mansholt whatever chances he had of becoming president...
Surprise Dessert. Hanrahan, however, decided to fight back, and he had the resources to do so. As U.S. Attorney for Northern Illinois and as state's attorney, he had built up a reputation as a zealous law enforcer. He asked voters during the campaign: "Would you want your law enforcement carried out by me or by a nice fellow?" A volatile man, he buttonholed precinct captains to remind them who he was and what they owed him. When he found that doors were locked at ward meetings, he sometimes tried to bash them down. He claimed that...