Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With more fervor than felicity of style, John Roche, the White House's staff intellectual, declared: "The A.D.A. has backed away from the nonsupport of totalitarianism." United Steel workers President I. W. Abel, whose union has been contributing some $10,000 annually to the A.D.A., wired National Chairman John Kenneth Galbraith that the repudiation of Johnson was "unwarranted, unrealistic and shortsighted...
...fact is, there often is no message. Havens, 27, a Brooklyn-born Negro who performs with compelling fervor, exemplifies the tendency of today's singers to avoid urging anything on the listener, but to try to embody an emotional state that makes its point indirectly. California's Tim Buckley, 21, says that he prefers to sing for audiences who "just want to feel someone's pain and happiness." And like most of his colleagues, he is confident that, as he intones in the Larry Beckett lyric for The Magician...
Jack Vaughn, director of the Peace Corps, last night denied charges that the Peace Corps has lost its old idealistic fervor and joined the 'establishment;' "We are a free speech movement," he asserted...
...rare public appearance at Harvard two years ago at a "Speak-Out" on the Vietnam War. Compared with the score of illustrious professors who spoke before him, Sorokin was not well known. But in spite of his age and his ill health, he overwhelmed the audience with his fervor, his intellect, and his unbending hostility to America's foreign policy...
...activist glorifies the act: man is the sum of his acts, what he understands doesn't count, it's what he does which is the ultimate measure of the man. The academic protects his vested interest with equal fervor: the action must be subordinate to understanding...