Word: fanaticism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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1) The ad hominem attacks on me are unnecessary, since the comment that the Admissions Office seems willing to sacrifice academic standards for athletic ability in selected sports cannot be attributed to any psychological weakness of mine. For the record, though, I am a sports fan, almost a sports fanatic...
Toad found himself seduced, in love, scribbling away in the transports of a new passion. Toad was always a fanatic, of course, an absolutist. He bought the fanciest fountain pen. His word processor went first into a corner, then into a closet with the old IBM.
Were the results then distorted against divestment? A closer look suggests the opposite. The fact that almost four times as many voted no, Harvard should not divest, as voted no on question two (which The Crimson interprets as saying that the council should not divest) shows that something is very...
Yale fanatic Nordhaus will sit across the Yale Bowl from his son tomorrow. According to the elder Nordhaus, son Jeffrey '89 is just exhibiting transitory sentiments.
The advantage to being a fanatic is that everybody remembers you for your obsession. The disadvantage is that nobody remembers you for much else. Nearly three-quarters of a century after his death, in 1912, Johan August Strindberg looms large in the public consciousness as the theater's greatest misogynist...