Word: fanaticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pinkerton detectives, known as "operatives," initiated the practice of keeping suspect files ("has scar on left hand," and lives with "a Hooker named Frisco Ann"). As for doctrine, operatives subscribed to the "General Principles," including one that read, "The ends justify the means." The agency was the self-expression of...
The Early Guerrilla. David defeated Goliath, Gale adds, because he possessed fire power-meaning a primitive but effective missile-plus "the courage, the skill and the brains to use it." David might be considered an early prototype of the socially conscious guerrilla fighter, "cultivating friendship with the local people, who...
"Block clubs" have been organized in some white areas adjoining Chicago's South Side ghetto. Suspicious of interlopers, the clubs keep track of autos passing through the streets. They also follow up on arrests and prosecution of offenders. Joe Lenoci, 35, a factory production controller who heads one block...
De Riencourt takes that outdated boast with deadly seriousness. Something deep in the character of the Puritan (an "iron-hard, practical, sober fanatic dedicated to hard work") ideally equips Americans to play 20th century Romans. When Puritan qualities are combined with the "innate and relentless expansionism" of the frontiersman, it...
One inestimable advantage of our multiple residences is that it is so easy to be not at home. Privacy is probably the most valuable thing that money can buy; the poor have practically none, and the privacy of the middle class is eroding rapidly. Only the very rich can afford...