Word: fervently
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...LAOS. A Laotian bonze is likely to remind questioners that for a priest to talk politics violates one of the 227 Theravadan rules of conduct. The constitution stipulates that the King must be a "fervent Buddhist," but fervor in happy-go-lucky Laos covers a multitude of careless religious enthusiasms. Perennial civil war has left Buddhist practice virtually uninvolved, though near the Luang temple, skilled, cigarette-puffing monks cheerfully cast their Buddhas in brass melted down from 37-mm. and 105-mm. artillery cartridges...
...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...
...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...
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...
...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...