Word: fervor
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During the sixties and early seventies, The Crimson was swept up in the same revolutionary fervor that led to widespread protests and to the 1969 student takeover of University Hall. Crimson editorials sympathized with radical students and editors themselves were often just as involved in campus activism...
...decade, "students were becoming less involved," remembers Assistant Managing Editor James G. Hershberg '82, who is now an assistant history professor at George Washington University and the former director of the Cold War International History Project. Politically slanted news reporting abated in the face of declining activist fervor...
...Sheridan, the director and co-writer here, who also worked with Day-Lewis on My Left Foot and In the Name of the Father, may have figured that subtlety has no place in a story about the lunatic fervor of Irish extremist politics. Or maybe he figured his cast could make the gritty fantasy plausible. Day-Lewis very nearly does. His laser stare and world-class rope skipping, his very devotion to the project, elevate the film to check-it-out status and get the crowd cheering for him and his quest. Even in a slim tale like The Boxer...
Julie Johnson is at its best when characters are allowed to interact and deal with the daily challenges of mundane life. Bishop, who displayed spectacular passion and fervor earlier this term as Lady Macbeth, turns her emotional intensity inwards as a quietly powerful individual. Julie's frustration with herself and her surroundings is brilliantly portrayed by Bishop; she slowly builds up her confidence while retaining her sensitivity and empathy...
...phase of it is coming to a close. Dunne says Another City, Not My Own is his farewell to murder trials. For readers, that's too bad. What has marked his work is not his writing or his reporting but his moral fervor. To journalists the Simpson trial was a great story; to the attorneys it seemed to be a competition; to the public it was a mini-series. Certainly, Dunne relished the spectacle, but more than anyone else, he passionately attended to what the trial was really about--the slayings of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman. Having seen...