Word: fanaticism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That seems to be the idea behind Lillian Hellman's "Another Part of the Forest," now at the Lyric Stage in Boston. The Hubbards are a juicy enough bunch: the miserly patriarch with a shadowy past; his wife, a religious fanatic; one son who schemes ruthlessly; another who whines and...
Authorities have the testimony of three accomplices in the murders. They also have two .22-cal. weapons that one accomplice says were used in the killings; a gun fanatic, he could not bear to follow Ullo's orders to dispose of the pistols and instead stashed them in a...
Influential American Jews eagerly accepted this version. Argues Chicago Businessman Gary Ratner: "It wasn't terrorism for terrorism's sake. They were trying to create a country, not destroy it." Critics were rebuffed. Among them is Rabbi Arnold Wolf, Jewish chaplain at Yale and national chairman of Breira...
Few Senators have more reason to want a cure for cancer than Massachusetts' Edward Kennedy. In 1973 his son Teddy, now 15, had a leg amputated because of a bone malignancy. But last week, presiding over a crowded, acrimonious Senate subcommittee hearing on Laetrile, Kennedy showed little patience with...
However, the geographer's discipline and intellect turn out to mask a fanatic's zeal. He imposes an implacable martial law and calmly uses torture to recruit troops from the countryside. Even his eccentric respect for the humanity of the natives becomes a form of arrogance. He enjoys...