Word: fanaticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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May I criticize your review of Sequoia (TIME, Feb. 4)? Let me assure you I am a nature lover, but not a fanatic I hope. Our family has spent many happy vacations in the California forests: no one appreciates more their beauty. We hate sentimental twaddle, such as this picture...
Wrote Pundit Mark Sullivan of the New York Herald Tribune: "The zeal of those promoting the plan is evangelical, almost fanatic. The pressure on Congress is much greater than was ever brought by veterans for the bonus. . . . Promoters of the bill say it is supported by 10,000,000 persons...
Suzy was never a professional. The U. S. niece of a London publican's wife, she went to England to dance in a variety show. When she lost her job she became a decoration around her aunt's bar. For something better to do, she took up with a loud...
Author Boyle, neoRomantic, writes of queer people, queer doings. My Next Bride, her latest, treats of a universal disease that is peculiarly virulent in the U. S.; expatriatitis. None of Author Boyle's characters is quite normal but they all have a normal, mortal longing to go home. Those...
Los Angeles heard the mature Klemperer last winter and Los Angeles pronounced him great for his Beethoven, his Brahms. He still looked like a dark, fanatic prophet but he had modified his gestures save for stirring climaxes when he jerked his head so violently that his ill-fitting glasses kept...