Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Davidson, who is a rather modest and unassuming person, seems a little embarrassed by the sizeable proportions of some of his most successful efforts. But he has pursued his ideas with a dedicated fervor that could hardly be considered meek...
Donner denies vehemently that G.M. "has ever worked aggressively to stifle competition." But he insists with equal fervor that General Motors does not-and cannot-attempt to hold down its auto sales for fear of antitrust action. No institution, he argues, can sensibly set out to be second best, or to do less than its best. So long as General Motors continues to grow on the strength of price competition and product performance, he believes that both law and equity are on its side...
Lincoln's Epic. Northerners filled their writings with Calvinist fervor, certain that God had willed them to stamp out slavery. "This vision of Judgment," writes Wilson, "was the myth of the North." Though not at first an abolitionist, Abraham Lincoln made this "myth" stick by the power of his words. Driven by ambition to be President, he grew more apocalyptic in his comments on slavery as war approached. "He created himself as a poetic figure," writes Wilson, "and thus imposed himself on the nation. We have, in general, accepted the epic that Lincoln directed and lived and wrote." Some...
...through far-ranging recital tours and huge editions of their verse, they are reaching the widest, best-educated public in Russian history. The result has been a remarkable poetic revival. In theaters and student hostels from White Russia to Central Asia, overflow crowds listen to poets with almost religious fervor. On Sunday nights in summer, city squares echo to the liquid, incantatory cadences of Pushkin. Lermontov and. often. Zhenya Evtushenko. One good reason for poetry's popularity: scraps of "noiseless verse," as Russian writers call work that is too avant-garde or radical for publication, can easily be mimeographed...
...short story published in Youth Magazine: "Heroism, self-sacrifice! That's what the journalists write about. But look around: what everyone's worrying about is how to grab off more for himself." The young idolize Fidel Castro, whose revolution in their eyes embodies the authentic ideological fervor that has gone from their own. This vision was heightened by Poet Evtushenko, who visited Cuba last year and in Pravda proclaimed: "Revolution may be grim but not, goddamit, dull...