Word: fervor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...being not President but Secretary of State, a man who had trained for the job during 50 years of corporation law and international diplomacy, Dulles translated his respect for Theodore Roosevelt's lessons about peace-by-power and Woodrow Wilson's lessons about peace-by-moral-fervor into a gleaming weapon against Communism...
...beauty of Blake Edwards' direction is that it restores to these familiar jokes something of their first fine fervor and surprise. The man obviously loves his material, and he has fired the players with something of his own excitement. Even bored old Keenan Wynn is back at his best. Cast as a great big horrible actors' agent. Actor Wynn slinks about the screen looking like an absurdly prosperous tapir in dark glasses. But when a terrified female pressagent informs him that his big star is pregnant, Wynn reduces his face to a heap of malevolent hamburger, and produces...
Again and again Batista's army announced that "the campaign is almost won." But his 1,000 barracks-fat soldiers around the Sierra Maestra showed less and less hunger for the fight. In the long stalemate the rebel army grew in size and fervor. Castro talked and talked of his dreams for Cuba, sitting up until dawn in the huts of the guajíros-the squatters who farm the rugged mountains. "It is not right," he said, "that a man should go to prison for robbery when he is able to work, wants to work and cannot find...
...government thereupon set off in confused pursuit of a program. The only clear lines were do-good fervor at home and opposition to dictators abroad. The Communists were freed to operate openly for the first time since 1953; the Communist paper Hoy appeared immediately. Though only 12,000 strong in a population of 6,500,000, the Communists infiltrated some rebel columns during the fighting, rushed into the convenient vacuum in organized labor and grabbed five out of 18 seats on the executive board of the hastily formed rebel labor federation...
...course any clod can be a crusader, but Osborne is no literary Peter the Hermit. His fervor is complemented by a first-rate independent mind. For all the obvious intensity with which he holds his beliefs, he has no all-embracing doctrine that makes his views on every question predictable, and that serves him as a fetter as well as a crutch. He is a confirmed socialist, but he has acknowledged that "Socialism is an experimental idea, not a dogma." (I quote from a published symposium entitled Declaration, which contains essays by Osborne and Kenneth Tynan which are worth reading...