Word: fervor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Miss Brodie is a teacher of iron whim and blowtorch fervor. She is also an eccentric spinster whose frustrations, romanticism, spunk, pride and biological gusto are forever making her break out of the prim parochialism of a stuffy 1930s Scottish finishing school for girls. Zoe Caldwell acts up a typhoon in the title role of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, but is nonetheless unable to conceal that she is one character in pressing search of a play...
Water for Indians. Today, at 29, Lorenz has a 130-member staff, maintains eleven offices. Most of the 35 lawyers who work under him are fresh out of law school and, like Lorenz, burning with idealistic fervor. Nearly a third of the work is focused on consumer and employment problems. Another third involves litigation against Government agencies, and the remainder centers on domestic relations and housing problems. In 1967 alone, C.R.L.A. has handled 9,516 cases, each involving an average of 2.5 persons, at an expenditure of only $38.50 per person...
...context of a war that has none of the clear-cut aspects of Pearl Harbor, at a time when the country's internal problems are being examined with unprecedented intensity and emotion, and under a President who, despite all his efforts, has not been able to stir fervor in the hearts of his countrymen...
Despite a declining fervor for the civil rights movement, students are still eager to hear from two Negro militants: Stokely Carmichael and Dick Gregory. When they seek a religious figure, campus organizations think first of two unconventional Episcopal clergymen: the Rev. Malcolm (Are You Running with Me, Jesus?) Boyd and Bishop James A. Pike. Among academics, Economist John Kenneth Galbraith this year seems to be slightly more in vogue than Communications Theorist Marshall McLuhan...
This problem will undoubtedly persist for several years in a society such as Cuba, marked to its core by the fervor, passion and impatience of a young revolution. But meanwhile the technicians are being trained, and the economy continues to move forward surprisingly well, considering its isolation from the rest of the Western Hemisphere...