Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hindu widow Sugan Kunwar Singh flung herself sacrificially-and illegally-into the flames of her husband's funeral pyre last October (TIME, Nov. 1), Jodhpur has been on a religious binge. Self-styled holy men from miles around have swarmed into town to cash in on the popular fervor. Hawkers in the city's crowded bazaar are peddling ballads and poems extolling the virtues of suttee, the accepted name for the widow's sacrifice. In Jodhpur's homes, emotional wives worship before cheap lithographs showing a noble Sugan Kunwar, cradling the head of her dead husband...
...charm of Defense Secretary Wilson, up to now, has been his winsome candor. Political expediency never seemed to stop him from saying what he felt, and he pursued his policies with a fervor that belied his own statement that every time his mouth opened there was a foot in it. So, one would note his new directive to the military, calling for a reversal of his centralized buying doctrine, with a certain regret, were it not so necessary for the country's welfare...
...experiment like IC is very likely to enjoy its best years when it is new to students and faculty. Experiment creates excitement, and in such an atmosphere, a course will give every indication of complete success. In an effort to prolong the IC fervor, President Wriston has suggested that professors who wish to continue teaching in the IC program redesign their courses or perhaps change them entirely every few years. In this way he hopes to keep instruction on a high plane of competence and inspiration...
...living was cheap. There he could fish for his dinner, and count on a small income from his crops. Later on, his pictures began to sell a little, but rural seclusion remained Dove's choice. Landscape, he had decided, was the proper subject of his art. With pantheistic fervor he poured his feelings about nature into half-recognizable abstractions, trying always to dissolve what he saw into what he felt. Pure feeling was the gold Dove sought to distill from the dross of his materials...
...responsibilities, and that the decision of the Republican majority amounted to a "usurpation of legislative power by an administrative agency.'' By this "wholesale slash," said he, "it seems probable that at least 25% and perhaps . . . 33⅓% of our past jurisdiction is now eliminated." With equal fervor his fellow Democrat Ivar H. Peterson protested that the limits had been set "arbitrarily" and"capriciously." But NLRB Chairman Guy Farmer, speaking for the three-man Republican majority, estimated that the change would affect only about 1% of all employees previously covered...