Word: zealousness
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...exposure, and to some extent the misrepresentation, of these covert activities that got the CIA into so much trouble. While zealous agents sometimes overstepped legal limits, the agency more often took the rap for activities that were ordered or approved by higher authorities. The abortive Bay of Pigs invasion was approved by Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy. It is still debated whether Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson knew of or supported assassination attempts against foreign leaders, such as the bizarre plan to supply poisoned cigars to Fidel Castro. L.B.J. approved Operation Phoenix, in which agents directed the killing of Viet Cong terrorists...
...commands his Cabinet like an authoritarian godfather, and internal opposition is all but stilled. But Begin seems unable to contemplate surrendering any inch of land in the occupied territories where Israelis have settled, even when these footholds are clearly illegal. Last week his government stood by in silence as zealous Israeli nationalists of Gush Emunim (Band of the Faithful), under the protection of Israeli soldiers, established the cornerstone for a new settlement at Shiloh, 30 miles north of Jerusalem on the West Bank. Some Knesset members of Begin's own Likud coalition even took part in the ceremonies...
...opening night began with an unusual ceremony. As the audience rose quietly to its feet, a sole trumpeter onstage played first the Soviet national anthem and then that of the U.S. This salute to theatrical detente came about through the zealous effort of Nina Vance, founder and longtime head of Houston's Alley Theater. On a cultural exchange mission to the U.S.S.R. in May 1977, Vance was particularly impressed by Mikhail Roschin's Echelon and the way in which it was directed by Galina Volchek, head of Moscow's Sovremennik Theater and a noted actress as well...
...sure, has always been a TV staple, but now the lovelorn soaps have gained such a galvanized following among old and young that television can spoof itself with an unsavory parody of the genre called Soap. Public TV found out not long ago that it could gather its most zealous audience ever with the quality soap opera called Upstairs, Downstairs. Many radio stations, meanwhile, have discovered that it is possible to ignore rock and develop sizable audiences with the schmaltz of Barry Manilow or the mellow golden oldies of Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller and the like. In the real world...
There was never anything small about the feast of entertainment offered either. For a ticket that never got higher than $5, the hall offered its customer not merely a movie but performances by a 75-member symphony orchestra, a resident corps de ballet, visiting vocalists and instrumentalists, and zealous sing-alongs with the booming organ. And, always, the machine-perfect, fail-proof routines of the pert-figured, high-kicking Rockettes. On seasonal holidays there were, in addition, lavishly staged extravaganzas during which the mammoth stage might be transformed into a cathedral, or a racecourse for chariots drawn by live horses...