Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high point of all anti-Conant fervor came just before the last war when the president was an ardent advocate of aid to Great Britain and further intervention by the United States. He naturally supported the nation's first peace-time draft. This naturally engendered a certain hostility from the College, since some undergraduates got the idea that Conant was trying to force them all into the Army to get shot at. This was hardly a fair attitude, especially since one of his two sons was at the time eminently draftable, but student picketing of Conant speeches nevertheless became...
Savonarola jumped into the life of Florence with the zest of a Puritan unloosed in Babylon. A man of deep and solitary faith, he believed he was God's instrument for purifying both church and city, and said so. His fervor turned out the Medici dictatorship, temporarily turned Florence into a theocracy. He fed the starving, reduced taxes for the poor, and protected the city from French invaders. He also burned books, ruthlessly condemned heresy, recruited armies of children to spy on their elders...
...Francisco Story (Fidelity-Vogue; Warner) shows how stouthearted Joel McCrea cleaned up sinful San Francisco during the 18503. The main object of McCrea's moral fervor is Unprincipled Politician Sidney Blackmer, who is apparently responsible for most of the corruption in California. Blackmer's good friend, sultry Yvonne de Carlo, horsewhips McCrea and then tries to have him shanghaied, but deep down she really loves him. In the end, McCrea, assisted by Yvonne, bests Blackmer in a shotgun duel on horseback and sets the stage for law & order in San Francisco. A horse opera that tries determinedly...
...would destroy what we have built and we would be on the road to World War III ... The Republicans never change, they voted against everything that has made this country strong in the last 20 years." But as Candidate Harriman sat down to polite applause, no blazes of political fervor sparked to life...
...eulogizing the freedom-loving spirit of old and its colonial partisans, Cambridge police were showing just how far their fair city had strayed from the good old days. It was not a striking illustration, mostly because the question of whether to wave placards at meetings does not raise much fervor one way or the other. But it is an illustration, nonetheless...