Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...School professor, and George Layman Kittredge, equally well known professor of English, were the two glants of the Syndics, and they made sure that there was no nonsense about profit before (publishing) pleasure. Upon one occasion, when a book had achieved almost miraculous success and was selling with the fervor of a Maxwell Bodneheim epic, Moore stomped into a Syndics' meeting a little late. Physically a tremendous man with a booming voice, he slammed the table with a fist and reared, "Well, by God, it's just as I told You-we should never have accepted the book." Profits seemed...
...Methodism, which has had far more of an influence on British socialist policies than Marxism ever had, is hard put to stir up the old fervor in these days of the welfare state. Methodism's great 19th century battles on behalf of the over worked, the overcrowded and the under paid in the lusty turmoil of the Indus trial Revolution have now been won in the sooty cities of the Midlands, on the docksides of the Tyne and in the slag-heaped valleys of Wales. And Methodist zeal for social betterment is left with such low-calorie crusades...
None of this bothers Harry Grant, who talks about the Journal with the purple sweep of a Fourth of July orator and the fervor of an evangelist. Says he: "The Journal must be our Fair Lady. We must have freedom, freedom, freedom-not to be willful, or bigoted, or swell-headed, or to give us delusions of grandeur-but so that the Journal can act entirely as it thinks best for the community. The Journal is above our frailties. The Journal's job is to serve the public. It can't be anything else...
...make any machine in Milwaukee, but we have no first-class theater building or art museum or orchestra-and no real prospect of them." 'For its lack of the outward signs of culture, the Journal has to share the blame. If Harry Grant had resolutely exercised his evangelistic fervor a generation ago in favor of such cultural monuments, Milwaukee would probably have them. "It's very unusual for one man to have all the power I have," says he. "Men tolerate me because they know I don't want a thing for myself. I want...
...index to the prestige of Russian leaders lies in the official fervor with which their birthdays are celebrated. It took nearly two years for Russian newspapers to print all the tributes to Stalin on his 70th birthday, but last Dec. 21, when his birthday rolled around again, no mention of it was made. Last week Premier Georgy Malenkov came to his 52nd birthday (on Jan. 8). In anticipation of the great day, Rumania's Communist news agency, Agerpress, filed a canned eulogy of the Soviet chief to its member papers in preparation for the standard high jinks. Czechoslovakian editors...