Word: fervor
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...finally board the plane. I reach down to pick up A Passage to India, but I hear the girls behind me begin to talk and I capitulate. They gossip with fervor as if everyone should and wants to hear anything and everything they say. I learn about ubermensch #4 as I eat my dry carrots and meditate on the moist turkey of a few days...
...sculpture park is the brainchild of its director, Paul Tucker, an art history professor at UMass Boston, a recent recipient of UMass's Distinguished Scholarship Award and an internationally renowned expert on Impressionism. With characteristic fervor, Tucker curated the 1998 Monet in the 20th Century show at the Museum of Fine Arts, setting a new attendance record for the museum. At UMass Boston's pre-Commencement dinner this year, Chancellor Penny declared the establishment of the Paul Hayes Tucker Endowed Chair for the Arts, which was facilitated by $1 million donations from members of the Arts on the Point advisory...
Members on the election commission this year have all but pledged to enforce campaign rules with stringent fervor. It is about time. Campaign rules--which impose spending caps, regulate donations and designate appropriate postering techniques--ensure that candidates are granted equal opportunity. The actions of last year's commission, which haphazardly conducted investigations of alleged violations and arbitrarily made rulings, were inexcusable. For this year's commission to make good on its promise, it must be prepared to actively and thoroughly investigate any allegations of rules violations, no matter how unpleasant or unpopular...
...deepening concern that I have viewed the power struggle in Yugoslavia and the reaction of the Western powers to the new President. In a democratic process, the people of Serbia voted against the economic failures and corruption of the Milosovic era but voted for a candidate of equal nationalist fervor and hence retained the ideas we all abhor and condemn. The West, which has for so long rejected Milosovic, now has embraced (rather too quickly) both a man who embodies the darker aspects of Serbian ultranationalism and a nation that still believes in it. Have Western leaders so quickly forgotten...
...state system still suffers from a decade of intervention by former Governor Fob James, a wily if obtuse politician of the old school, adept at surviving by switching parties and baiting voters. In 1988, riding a tide of states' rights fervor, he appointed a friend, Martha Nachman, as welfare commissioner, with a mandate to ignore federal court-imposed guidelines on foster care. The mammoth state agency quickly deteriorated...