Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...important administrative posts, he still runs the society with an iron hand, brooking no opposition to his ideas and acknowledging no power to veto his decisions. Moreover, the society, founded on the notion that a Communist conspiracy was taking over the U.S., has lost some of its zip and fervor at a time when the U.S. is fighting an open war against Communists in Viet...
Religion, by one Webster definition, is the object of a pursuit arousing "religious convictions and feelings such as great faith, devotion, or fervor," and science, by another Webster definition, is "accumulated and accepted knowledge which has been systematized." The two come together in the field of the UFO, where writers on the subject certainly show great faith, devotion and fervor in their efforts to have the objects regarded as part of accepted and accumulated knowledge...
This is dangerous ground to occupy, and despite his fervor Phillips uneasily senses that it is. Time and again, his Truman testimonials, having run out of plausible foundation, drift lamely into the damnation of faint praise. The fact that Truman increased the White House staff from 600 to 1,200 is listed as one of his achievements; so are his January budget briefings for newsmen and his veto record (250 bills...
...puzzled by the meaning of the Viet Nam struggle. They are not Vietniks, or frenzied protesters. Indeed, they pay little or no attention to the thin demonstration fringe. But since it is undeclared and slow to take shape, the Viet Nam war has hardly aroused the star-spangled fervor of World War II, when entire fraternity chapters tramped off to the post office to enlist en masse. The fight does not seem to have the relatively crisp delineations of Korea, where the United Nations underwrote the U.S. commitment and the Red Chinese invaders were clearly an enemy...
...staying close to the news is also a matter of conviction as well as temperament. Reston is practically obsessed with the importance of the newspaper's educational role. (In forty-minute interview recently, that was the only topic on which he volunteered a comment-and he spoke with fervor when he did.) And newspapers can best perform this role by showing the significance of current events...