Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that Yorty capitalized on. Mayoral elections this year and next in New York, Cleveland, Newark, Detroit and Atlanta could turn on substantially the same emotions. With Sam Yorty's example so clear before them, other candidates may well be tempted to exploit the racial issue with all the fervor of a Sam Yorty...
...French response to De Gaulle was strongly emotional, but the French are, au fond, a pre-eminently reasonable rather than sentimental people. So long as there seemed a plausible correlation between De Gaulle's aims and France's means, the fervor for the Cross of Lorraine held firm. But the moment De Gaulle got beyond what French common sense thought to be feasible, he began to gradually lose his constituency until finally it was gone...
...their own, they have been continually challenged in the West by the Socialists, and lately by the anarchistic students of the New Left. On May Day last week both the Communists and their challengers, while occasionally clashing with each other and police, failed to project the heady fervor of earlier years...
...Many denounce the Viet Nam war as "an intellectuals' war," because assorted academics helped conduct it. Meantime, the New Left has attacked liberals for having failed to cure the country's social ills. Caught in this cross fire, the intellectuals are wavering between passive despair and revolutionary fervor. Today, many intellectuals are unsure of where they fit into U.S. life, unsure of how to apply their intelligence to rational reform -even unsure of just what an intellectual is, or ought...
...recital of grievances. His eye catches the wry side of things-including himself. "April 25. I get up and shave with [Columbia President] Grayson Kirk's razor, use his toothpaste, splash on his aftershave, grooving on it all. I need something morale-building like this, because my revolutionary fervor takes about half an hour longer than the rest of me to wake up." Arrested and riding to jail surrounded by deadly earnest radicals, Kunen busies himself trying "to work a cigarette butt through the window grate so that I can litter from a police bus." Whimsically, he records...