Word: fanaticisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Idealist or Fanatic
Lowell, who was a fanatic for bells, nearly dropped his copy of De Tintinnabulis when Charles Crane offered to supply Harvard with one genuine set of Russian church bells. The two men measured Lowell House tower, and discovered that there would be just enough room for twenty-seven tone worth...
Pale-faced Clement Attlee was first on his feet. "Once there is a war in the modern age, in the last resort, any weapon will be used," he said. "There is no guarantee that in some country, at some time, there may not arise to power a fanatic who hated...
Manhattan police, poking through the tenement apartment of Lolita Lebron, last week uncovered several such impassioned verses among her drab effects. They were written by Lolita, the fiery divorcee who organized and led the armed assault on Congress (TIME, March 8), and they serve as a sort of battle hymn...
The problem was not Puerto Rico itself, which has one of the fastest-rising living standards in the world. Governor Munoz' "Operation Bootstrap" has brought 316 industries to the island and given it the second or third highest living standard in Latin America. Puerto Ricans are 90% self-governing...