Word: fervorous
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...theories gave presidential candidate Ronald Reagan more ground than the traditional hymns to patriotism and loyalty allowed him to stand on. But the most coveted was a young congressman from Michigan, a midwestern farmboy with strong sensibilities for justice and equity a college radical from the 60s whose ideological fervor refused to mellow into complacence but vented itself on the task of finding new solutions to the old problems...
Hers was a fervor that transcended sex; to a '30s movie audience it may have looked threatening, even mannish. She was the most aggressive and patrician of the '30s liberated ladies, and moviegoers wanted some extraordinary ordinary guy to sweep her off her pedestal and bring her down to earth. In the '30s that man was Gary Grant, a spirit as blithe as Hepburn's and a lot breezier. In the '40s and beyond, it was Spencer Tracy, the stolid, sensitive man of whom Laurence Olivier said: "I've learned more about acting from watching Tracy than in any other...
DEAN ROSOVSKY isn't generally associated with Harvard football fervor, but the Associated Harvard Alumni and the Harvard Club of Virginia are using him to attract alums to next week's football game at William and Mary. The dean, a William and Mary grad, will host a lunch--billed as a "Touch Down with Dean Henry Rosovsky"--prior to the game. Presumably, donations will result for the Harvard Campaign. Asked about the game, Rosovsky said, "If you ask me to predict a score, I would predict a tie. Actually, I can't lose in that game...But my relations with...
...political or religious group can be completely ruled out. He was despised as a traitor by Arab nationalist radicals at home as well as those in Libya, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and elsewhere. He was hated by Islamic fundamentalists both inside and outside Egypt, and their numbers, like their fervor, are on the increase. He was at odds with some of his country's Coptic Christians. He had quarreled with the Soviet Union for nine years and only last month expelled the Soviet ambassador. At that time he also ordered the arrest of 1,600 Egyptian dissidents of all kinds, including...
...best of these biographical and literary essays flash with the fervor and assurance of a man nurtured on late Victorian intellectuality, steeped in 1930s radicalism and tempered by more than 30 years on Fleet Street. He makes no apology for his bookishness: "Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power." He draws a charming portrait of his father, who passed on his bibliophilia, and a colorfully contradictory one of his father-figure, Lord Beaverbrook. Foot reminisces warmly about his exasperating fellow journalist Randolph Churchill, but repeats the remark that...