Word: fervor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Serbia proper, reaction was muted but generally welcoming. Most Serbs long ago lost their nationalist fervor and their passion for the war next door. As sanctions hit hard and fueled inflation, the Serb nation looked forward to peace and a return to normality. They realize Milosevic touched off the bloodbath, and now has tried to end it. "I know Milosevic started this," says Dejan Popovic, 22, a student in Belgrade, "and his guilt may be greater than any other's. But now I have to say thank you." Last week the U.N. Security Council said it too by suspending...
Still, the irresistible fervor of the artist comes through. Williams, who eventually succeeded in publishing some volumes of poetry, was never much of a poet. But his greatest plays are flush with poetry in the broad sense--with moments of compressed lyrical yearning. A number of his most famous lines (like Blanche DuBois' valedictory "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers") might well have surfaced in one of Robert Frost's adage-laden verse-monologues...
...since last November he has never had so many hookers. Some of them have been tied up, spanked and sodomized by lawyers and lobbyists for years. Many of them are new to the world's oldest profession, but since arriving in Washington they have been turning tricks with unabashed fervor for Madam Gingrich and his clients...
...evangelical fervor, when Buchanan talks about reclaiming the presidency as a bully pulpit, the operative word is more "bully" than "pulpit." He pulls no punches, whether he is attacking the weak or the powerful. And simply by standing up and preaching with such apparent conviction, speaking the unspeakable and crossing the lines of polite political discourse, Buchanan distinguishes himself from every candidate who ever waffled or wavered or hinted or hedged. As the '96 race stands, that distinction promises to carry him a long...
...Mather House representative said that after the initial fervor dies down, he could easily see a compromise on interhouse rules...