Word: zealousness
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Large and small pressure groups or activist groups are exercising their new muscle legally even when they stray beyond the bounds of civility, as they frequently do. Nobody questions their right to behave as they do, and even critics who recall with distaste the triumph of the zealous temperance crusade that, in 1919, got the Prohibition amendment passed could cite occasions when dedicated dissident groups have served the nation's higher interests admirably. Indeed, today's factional enthusiasm is usually tracked to two such instances: the civil rights movement and the anti-Viet Nam War movement...
Former colleagues remember Agee, now 43, as a zealous anti-Communist when he joined the CIA after graduating from Notre Dame in 1956. He spent twelve years as an undercover operative in several Central and South American countries, became disillusioned by the CIA's methods and quit...
...have 30 people tell you they were in the John at the same time." However un-Samaritan it may seem, the unwillingness of witnesses to go to court is understandable. Witness waiting rooms are grim, if they exist, and court procedures can be exasperating. Getting cross-examined by a zealous defense lawyer is often a fearful experience in itself, especially for rape victims. The typical experience of a witness, says a former head of the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, is to be "abused, ignored, attacked. At the end of a day in court, he is likely to feel that...
...critics take their main inspiration from a recently formed cadre of zealous upper-case runners. True Runners, these. They imagine that their activity sets them apart from and generally above the rest of humanity. Many come forth sounding as though they have been Zenned and Esalened and Rolfed and Primal Screamed into a state of exaltation hitherto achieved only by beings who talk to birds or turn miscreant wives into salt...
Plea bargaining is as widely criticized as it is prevalent. Defendants claim they are railroaded into abandoning their right to a fair trial by zealous prosecutors who "overcharge" them and then agree to reduce the charge in exchange for a guilty plea. The public, on the other hand, complains that criminal defendants get off too lightly. In plea bargaining, armed robbery often becomes unarmed robbery (this is known as "swallowing the gun"), and burglaries by night miraculously become the lesser crime of burglary...