Word: zealousness
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...theories of structural analysis. His book is concise and summarizes when possible, but it is not a popularization-he remains honest to the complexities of Levi-Strauss. Blending the old and new anthropology in his approach to structuralism, Leach presents Levi-Strauss as a uniquely important if not over-zealous, thinker...
Born on a farm in Ontario, Aimee absorbed that oldtime religion from her zealous Ma. At 17, she married a young Holy Roller who hustled her off to China as a missionary and quickly died there. A few months later, Aimee turned up in the U.S. with a weeks-old daughter in tow. She floundered around the Pentecostal circuit till a grocery clerk named McPherson proposed. After a fairly short spell of McPherson, she fell deathly ill and suffered a vision in which the Lord summoned her from the dishpan to the pulpit. So she dumped her daughter and small...
...scene of the action in Jordan, communications were shut down much of the week, and over-zealous royalist sharpshooters kept Western journalists virtually imprisoned in Amman's Jordan Intercontinental Hotel. Correspondent Roland Flamini spent eight harrowing days there before he managed to get to Beirut and report on his experience (see PRESS). Needless to say, he is happy to be out. "Winston Churchill once said that there's nothing more gratifying than being shot at without result," Flamini said later. "Personally, I find more gratification in not being shot...
Fancy or Fad. To some critics, the environmental movement resembles a children's crusade of opportunistic politicians, zealous Ivy Leaguers, longhaired ecoactivists and scientists who speak too sweepingly and too gloomily. The D.A.R. labels the movement "one of the subversive element's last steps." Members of that element, the ladies add, have "gone after the military and the police, and now they're going after our parks and playgrounds." In the same vein, several newspapers from Alabama to Alaska solemnly stressed the happenstance that Earth Day (April 22) fell on Lenin's birthday...
Divine Disobedience is divided into three long sections. The first, and sketchiest, is an account of the communal lifestyle of East Harlem's Emmaus House, a prototype for countless so-called "underground churches." When Francine began her project, Emmaus House was a hotbed of zealous ecumaniacs bent on building a new kind of parish with home rule and spontaneous liturgies. The community has become considerably more secular since then, and is evolving into a center for nonviolence...