Word: fervently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Neither latter-day account of the Cambodia caper is written in spite. Langlois cites the run-in with the laws of French colonial bureaucracy as the start of Malraux's fervent anticolonialism. Indeed, he did return to Indochina to start an independence movement, beginning his long flirtation with revolutionaries that led him to fight in China during the 1920s and Spain in the 1930s. Clara is hardly bitter; she even seeks to justify the theft. "Love," says she, "gives one rights...
...insistence on total control over the military establishment. The Rivers committee report demanded acerbically "whether we might not be better non-led by a mediocrity than be absolutely dominated by a Caesar." The House's rare show of solidarity behind Rivers' bill was also in part a fervent rejoinder to a column by Drew Pearson that very day charging that the committee chairman's absence from the House (which delayed action on the bill for two weeks) resulted from a monumental drinking binge. Rivers, who has been on the wagon for years, mentioned bursitis, not booze...
...wind and claims that he can't sleep properly in San Francisco because of "something in the air." He is the grand master of his trade. He is the stay-at-home who plays for hours at a time with his three daughters. And he is the fervent Dominican patriot who cannot wait to return home when the baseball season ends, and who bought a full-page ad two weeks ago in the nation's biggest newspaper, urging his countrymen to vote in the presidential elections...
...June 7 primary neared, Actor Ronald Reagan, a fervent supporter of Barry Goldwater in 1964, and San Francisco's longtime (1956-64) Mayor George Christopher, an equally outspoken champion of Nelson Rockefeller in the same campaign, had hardly ever mentioned each other's names-and for good reason. "There's feeling," notes one G.O.P. chieftain, "that the first guy who throws a real mud ball will get ten back in his face from party rank-and-file members who just don't want the apple cart upset...
...rhetorical flair, and Pat Diehl is appropriately massive, first as Herakles and late as Aecus, the doorman of Hell. The frog chorus, made up of Raker, Diehl, Popovich, and Fred Whelan, sings everything from march tunes to Christmas carols with polish. The Initiates, led by Jane Jackson, perform with fervent abandon, and in the second act create a hissing, cheering audience for the great debate...