Word: fervorous
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Womack remembers when Communists had it hard on campus. During the McCarthy witchhunts of the 1950s, not even Harvard's clout could repel the anti-Communist fervor...
...spigot will close quickly, however, if Aristide strays too far from the orthodoxies of free-market democracy. He will have to make sure his preferences for social spending do not overwhelm the development of a paying economy. U.S. officials will be watching closely to ensure he keeps his ideological fervor in check. "President Aristide and President Clinton probably don't see the world the same way," warns a State Department aide. "Aristide's view of modern society stands well to the left of mainstream America. It is going to require a lot of blood-pressure medication...
Those who came out in 1980 out of true fervor, however many they may have been, would in 1994 have enough trouble finding public transportation to get to a rally; gas is difficult to come by now that the Soviets are no longer around to provide an oil subsidy. In 1980, Cubans tossed rotting fruit and eggs at the gusanos (worms) who swarmed the Peruvian embassy in their efforts to leave the country...
...public life, revelations about his % activities during the war have prompted more reminiscences than recriminations. Pean prints a wartime letter he discovered from Henri Frenay, chief of the United Movement of the Resistance. An aide of Charles de Gaulle's Opposition-in-exile had questioned Mitterrand's newfound Resistance fervor, given his previous dedication to Vichy. "France's drama," Frenay wrote back, "is that its honest and impartial men believed, during a certain time, in Marshal Petain and placed their trust in him. They, without a doubt, made a mistake, but it was an innocent mistake that we cannot hold...
...problem with young people in Cuba today," he says, "is that they have no idea what it was like before the revolution." His wife Maria Luisa Vina Alonso, 67, nods solemnly. Before 1959 they were members of what Maria calls the petite bourgeoisie, but then Baldomero's revolutionary fervor turned him into a party-line journalist. They worked all over the country and even abroad, spreading Castro's word in receptive capitals like Santiago and Mexico City...