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Word: fervently (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fervent is Black's present belief in the "firstness" of the First Amendment, "the heart of our Government," that he says absolute freedom of speech even permits the publication of pornography, no matter how "hard-core." If obscenity is now considered a special kind of nonspeech for which people can be arrested, what is to prevent some demagogue from calling his critics "obscene" and arresting them? That, says Black, citing his well-thumbed Tacitus, is just what happened in Rome under Caesar Augustus. Moreover, the Supreme Court's current obscenity doctrine forces it to read every allegedly hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Supreme Court: The Limits That Create Liberty & The Liberty That Creates Limits | 10/9/1964 | See Source »

...most fervent plea for a "moral quest" came from Princeton's Robert F. Cohen. He told bright Tiger cubs that if they expected "only to accumulate knowledge, I would advise you to begin negotiations with another institution where you can attach yourself to a pipeline of inanimate learning and become full, like a storage tank, sealed by a diploma and otherwise useless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colleges: Far More than Grades | 10/2/1964 | See Source »

Those who mourn the fate of the Republican party--the reports of its "death" have been greatly exaggerated--may be unpleasantly surprised by Goldwater's showing in the election. Not only bigots will vote for Goldwater in November, but, many others who will be attracted by his fervent statement of an ideology which seems most expressive of American ideals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Goldwater 'Appeal' | 10/1/1964 | See Source »

...nation's largest Negro church is the National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., Inc. Its 5,000,000 members are fond of fervent gospel songs and sin-damning sermons, and show little interest in merging with more staid and sober white Baptist groups. Their kind of leader is the Rev. Joseph Harrison Jackson, the grandfatherly ecclesiastical politician who last week in Detroit was overwhelmingly elected to his twelfth consecutive term as National Baptist president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baptists: We Are Statesmen | 9/18/1964 | See Source »

...country men: "This is not only an urgent appeal of a million refugees from the north, nourishing the dream of liberating their native land. This is not only the ardent wish of thousands of families in the south with relatives who went to the north. This is also the fervent wish of the religious sects, and of the students . . . The push northward [is] an appropriate means of fulfilling our national history." Then the little general led the throng in loud shouts of "Bac lien!" ("To the north...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: To the North? | 7/31/1964 | See Source »

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