Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Disappearance has as many flaws as a pot-holed road, as many undigested scraps of thought as a Quiz Kids' program. But even the grotesqueness of the fantasy, and the gaps and snags, do not seriously detract from the book's underlying warmth of heart and crusading fervor. With the aid of a monstrous trick, Author Wylie again lays a stubby forefinger on his favorite theme-the relation of the sexes-and succeeds, at last, in discussing the matter in what, for him at least, is a grave and low-pitched tone of voice...
Willie has no explanation for his success. But Will Molter, last season's leading West Coast trainer who uses Willie's services whenever they are available, explains it with exhaustive fervor: "Willie's great. He doesn't try to knock the spirit out of a horse; any horse he rides can be raced again in a couple of days-and that's unusual. Willie's a great judge of pace. He doesn't whip the horse right out of the stall like Longden, but gets the feel of the horse in the first...
...Their surest reward will be a fine performance by Actor Ferrer, who gets uniformly good support from Mala Powers, a pretty Roxane. William Prince does well as the tongue-tied Christian, and Ralph Clanton as the haughty Comte de Guiche. Ferrer gives his role its full measure of lovelorn fervor, comic flair and wry pathos. Wearing the white plume with grand-mannered dash and strut, he also displays the kind of swordsmanship that ought to charm the popcorn set into listening to the poetry...
...Angeles, a clutch of angry, elderly demonstrators stormed a U.N. flag-raising ceremony. They chanted "U.N. is un-American," wagged U.S. flags in the faces of sheepish councilmen. The Chicago Tribune discovered a lady sewing on a U.N. flag, and the anti-U.N. fervor swept Tribune-land. Illinois V.F.W. and American Legion posts passed resolutions. The Aurora city council banned the U.N. flag from public buildings because "Russian Communists remain in the United Nations." In Highland Park, the local D.A.R. insisted that the U.N. flag come down. It did. The Parent-Teacher Association insisted it go back up. Town...
...Reporters Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen whirled to journalistic fame on the Washington Merry-Go-Round. The book, and its continuation in a daily column of the same title, told the backstairs story of Washington politics with all the urgency of a cloakroom whisper, and the crusading fervor of a revival meeting...