Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...view of the significant and often delicate issues involved in the atomic field the non-political ideal is probably impossible to realize completely. Yet in the last year especially, the commission seems to have ignored this goal, plunging into polities with unmatched fervor. as a result of the controversies in which the agency has been engaged, Commissioners have become known by the polities they keep. Businessmen or scientists on the commission are popularly regarded as high-level lobbyists, and expected to uphold predetermined viewpoints on almost every issue...
After the 1917 Revolution, there was a fervor within Russian intellectual circles for a "new" literature which would express the revolutionary spirit and cast away the worn-out or "decadent" works of the past. One of the first groups which gained prominence was the Futurists. Spreading not only in literature but also in art, Futurism launched an attack on all bonds with the past. It attacked the vocabulary, as well as the long-standing customs of the people...
...Angeles, where the weather is observed with evangelical fervor and the fog comes on big tiger feet, the Air Pollution District Office last week announced some definitions...
Gregory Peck, as the tough man's tough man, is by way of giving a nearly perfect performance. And his role is no snap. He must alternate between kindliness and deadliness, each with equal fervor, and yet without destroying the plausibility of either. Millard Mitchell, as a rugged marshal, is an old hand at being expert, as is bar-tender Karl Malden. Skip Homier and Richard Jeckel are the shot and kicked punks, and they seem to enjoy their work...
When the FCC overruled the CBS suggestions, the Lowell Broadcasting Council went after construction funds with fervor, and dug up more than were really expected. The Fund for Adult Education contributed $150,000; the Filene Foundation added $450,000; and a surprisingly strong Massachusetts Citizens' Committee for Educational Television donated...