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There have been times, to be sure, when the U.S. majority has pilloried minority dissenters-to say nothing of abolitionists, suffragettes, Indians, Mormons, Irish Catholics, Chinese and Negroes. The U.S. was founded by fervent believers in free expression-who almost immediately ignored their own First Amendment. In 1798, Congress enacted the Alien and Sedition Acts empowering the Federalists to ruthlessly prosecute Republican editors for, among other things, criticizing the Government's undeclared naval war with France. Lincoln did not even consult Congress in 1861, when he suspended the right of habeas corpus for anyone his Government deemed disloyal. During...
Sanders, the last honorary associate of the Institute of Politics, said in a taped interview that Romney's "fervent religious background might be very attractive to the people in the Bible Belt." Either Romney or Reagan, he added, would probably now run stronger in the South than even Richard Nixon...
...days of delay, the King followed his subjects' example and went along with the new government in hopes of directing it to a more moderate course. "Greece has gone through very hard trials recently," he said in his first meeting with the new Cabinet. "It is my fervent wish that the country revert to parliamentary government as soon as possible." When he appeared at midnight Mass in Athens to mark the Orthodox Easter, the crowds applauded...
...Messiaen's use of bird song in his work seems at once avant-garde and traditional, the paradox is typical. He is a fervent Roman Catholic who feels a primitive reverence for nature, a musical innovator who retains his childhood love for Mozart and Chopin. Although he stands aloof from the factions of the music scene, he is a teacher and champion of such different composers as Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen...
With the fortune he has made from weapons of war, McDonnell has long contributed to research on ways and means of keeping the peace. In 1950, he gave the McDonnell Foundation $500,000 for just that purpose. A fervent backer of the United Nations, he not only observes the U.N.'s Oct. 24 birthday as a plant holiday but also buys full-page newspaper ads to plug his belief that all Americans should "give their time, talents and wealth in striving toward U.N. goals." At the same time, he remains convinced that the U.S. "will be criminally negligent...