Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...magazines such as Guns, Guns & Ammo, Muzzle Blasts and Precision Shooting, have published mostly technical articles on the proper care and handling of firearms and the most proficient ways to bring down everything from varmints to Viet Cong. But lately they have been devoting more space and fervor to a campaign against legal control of gun sales. No. 1 target is Senator Thomas Dodd's bill, which would limit the interstate sale of firearms through the mail. Guns & Ammo called the bill's supporters "criminal-coddling do-gooders, borderline psychotics as well as Communists and leftists who want...
...than in Brazil. There are now 2,600,000 Pentecostalists in that nominally Catholic country-a gain of 1,100,000 since 1962. A major reason for the harvest is that, despite the Brazilians' traditionally easygoing approach to religion, many seem to be drawn by the intimacy and fervor of Pentecostal services, the joyous and uninhibited hymn singing, and the upright rigidity of the church's moral standards (no smoking or drinking...
...Calkins spoke to the young both from the pulpit and the podium. He was impressive not for any evangelistic fervor, but for his high cultivation, his keen tongue, and the obvious personal interest he took in everyone he knew. Those he addressed as youths carried with the mas men, his spiritual and deeply learned insights...
...were pleased, some were piqued or puzzled, few were bored. In fact, last week when the Hamburgers also presented the first American performance of Gunther Schuller's Kafka-inspired, twelve-tone opera The Visitation (TIME, Oct. 21), a minority of listeners leaped to their feet with truly Italian fervor to boo, hiss and shout "Fraud!", while a noisy majority clapped and cheered...
...evangelical fervor that Richards can bring to even a bowl of cereal comes naturally enough, since he is an ordained Church of the Brethren minister. He neither smokes nor drinks, and his favorite expletive is "Smoly Hoke!" Their emphasis being on clean living, the TV commercials he makes for Wheaties are in perfect character. So are the 80-odd speeches that Richards delivers on the banquet circuit each year, appearances liberally laced with a can-do gospel that is equal parts Norman Vincent Peale and Knute Rockne...