Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whom their taste led them. Bonnard, Vuillard, Matisse, Rouault and others were frequent guests at the Hahnlosers' winter home in Cannes. Swiss artists, professors and writers gathered weekly in the living room of the Villa Flora, where, surrounded by Van Goghs and Cezannes, they debated art with such fervor that the meetings were called "Revolution...
...international projects have been debated with such fervor or greeted with such optimism as the St. Lawrence Seaway. When it opened in 1959, its proponents prophesied that it would create "America's fourth seacoast," spread prosperity along its banks, and prove a boon to commercial shippers in the U.S. and Canada, which shared the $470 million cost of building it. After five years of operation, the Seaway has not come near to fulfilling that promise. Last week in Detroit, a Senate commerce subcommittee held hearings to discuss the Seaway's troubles and what can be done about them...
...doing away with all military juntas except those we bring into power. > I am for the sovereignty of Panama in the Canal Zone under the American flag. I am for the stabilizing of all governments of South America while allowing full scope for the natural revolutionary fervor of the people. I am for treating Latin America as a whole, never forgetting for a moment that each of our Latin American neighbors is quite different from the other. In relation to Cuba, I am for the liberation of Cuba without firing a shot. I feel that it is wholly possible...
...peers dourly at the TV camera through opaque, black-rimmed glasses, moves about the studio with the air of someone mentally counting his steps, speaks in a professorial baritone surcharged with a raspy German accent. He has none of Billy Graham's charismatic fervor, or Fulton Sheen's high-gloss oratory; in a tired-blood contest, he would probably run a dead heat with Ed Sullivan...
...Flowers campaign and the Great Leap Forward. To him, then, as a high school student in a foreign land, streetside markets were just as strange and exciting as "criticism and self-criticism" sessions. The innocence of his teen-age impressions is refreshing, a reminder that Peking, despite its revolutionary fervor is, after all, only another city...