Word: zealousness
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Still, I'm told there was a time when academia stood apart from popular currents and evaluated them from a critical perspective. It is a great loss to today's undergraduates that our teachers are no longer critics but, instead, are the most zealous flag-bearers of prevailing social trends...
...serious gentleman and have this crowd around you." But while Hyde is wary of revolutionaries who want to tear down the institutions he reveres, he recognizes that "they turned the lights on." He would still be in the minority and without a chairmanship were it not for the zealous Gingrich. "I served in this House many long years in the minority," he says. "And we were told that we were in the minority, and we were treated as a minority." As a sign of gratitude to Gingrich, Hyde zipped the Contract with America through his committee--even the portions...
...surprisingly, he has worked his way to the top of the Judiciary Committee, which traditionally attracts the more zealous members of both parties. It is a good showcase for Conyers, whose longevity and political skills are respected by other committee Democrats. In the utterly partisan fight likely to erupt over impeachment, a Democratic aide says, "Conyers will give Hyde fits. He'll say what everybody else is thinking, which is that the Republicans are railroading the President out of office...
...called "Year of the Woman" in Washington. Any way you slice it, the early 1990s were years of activism on steroids, when everyone and anyone with a cause felt justified in taking any actions whatsoever to propel their narrow agenda forward with the rest of their zealous cohorts...
...flip it. Most of the country thinks you are a liar and a cheat. A zealous prosecutor is working overtime to put you into early retirement. Every single night, the comics who truly write the first draft of history spit on you and smile. Your attempts to hide behind the powers of your office have diminished them as a result. Your hands are tied overseas; at home your agenda is dead. Your only daughter is back from college, and whatever you decide to say, you have to explain to her first. Your wife looks...