Word: fervor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...into a full-blown tragic figure, a victim of global politics all the sadder for being so streetwise. They are joined in the spotlight by Willy Falk in the role of Kim's G.I. lover, Chris, a part that was a cipher in London. Falk finds charm, erotic fervor and moral confusion in a man who serves as a metaphor for the U.S.'s blundering good intentions at playing global policeman. Salonga used to have to carry alone the idea that this was a doomed love worthy of Romeo and Juliet, not just a one-night stand that...
Though its name has--to the Broadway Bicycle School--the store itself offers the same services, with much of the same political fervor...
...presented on film about the demonstrations--including those not made by reporters--none were favorable. After the Tet Offensive in 1968, the number of protests skyrocketed, and televised statements on domestic opposition reflected increasing public acceptance of antiwar protest. But never did the media support the antiwar movement with fervor...
...current presence in the Gulf is not unjustified -- there seems to be a legitimate U.S. national interest in the Middle East. But Bush's strategy -- casting a shadow of the true U.S. interest in the region and rallying pro-war fervor our of a jingoistic moral obligation to peace and democracy -- is not the way we should conduct foreign policy. Such a mentality would lead to a dangerously interventionist United States. That's not in anyone's interest -- not the world...
African-American ambivalence about military service dates back to the Revolutionary War, when blacks enthusiastically fought for independence in the hope that their patriotic fervor would prove them worthy of freedom and citizenship. In this century, while blacks were generally supportive of both world wars, their discontent erupted publicly during Vietnam, when Martin Luther King Jr. and others opposed an unfair draft that conscripted the disadvantaged while allowing many sons of the middle class to escape military service. Those divided loyalties continue to tug at blacks today and will add to the burden of unfinished business awaiting the homecoming soldiers...