Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Government spending enough money on scientific research? And is the money it does spend being spent wisely? Each year, the scientific community argues over the answers with increasing fervor, because each year the massive tools of modern research move farther out of the financial reach of universities or industry. Only the Government can foot the bill...
Even taking into account the fervor of fútbol fans, why had this happened? Jorge Basadre, Peru's foremost historian, tried an answer: "Our people, especially our lower classes, are full of tensions and frustrations, dark, pent-up passions and angers. This situation is becoming acute under the impact of the population explosion and the poverty of the masses. Add to this the Communist contagion. These people have lost some of their faith and hope. When this happens, then sometimes people will behave more like brutes than...
...state where mayors and legislators have been elected from the jailhouse, and where the Harvard commencement procession was once led by the Sheriff of Middlesex County while he was under indictment. Consequently, it is silly to expect Thompson and the others to be gripped with a moral fervor and suspend themselves--and even if they do, there is no particular reason to hope for much improvement...
...force of will, in the process destroying the builder's self-respect and trampling on his old colleagues--neglecting the portentous advice that a solid spire "goes down as far as it goes up." At the end as the spire totters, Jocelin comes to recognize the human cost his fervor has exacted. He emerges from the destruction of his hopes able to face his impending death with a new, more comprehensive faith...
President Johnson declared his "war on poverty" last week with all of the martial fervor of a 12th century crusader. "On many historic occasions," he told the Congress in a message accompanying his antipoverty bill, "the President has requested from Congress the authority to move against forces which were endangering the well-being of our country. This is such an occasion. Our objective: total victory...