Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week the ritual was being repeated in ballrooms and cinemas all over Britain with a fervor that bordered on monomania. The British were out-bingoing the U.S. on a scale beyond the wildest dreams of the most game-happy Boston parish. The Mecca ballroom chain stages afternoon bingo games in 40 dance halls across Britain. But to bingo-mad mums, matinees at the Mecca were not enough, and the operators now promise bingo at least one night a week. Last week women began queueing outside one London hall at 7 in the morning to be sure of getting...
...pictures pass too quickly. All the many sides of Martin Luther are more or less touched upon-the brilliant scholar, the skillful dialectician, the linguist whose translation of the Bible molded the German language, the man whose interior life shifted from sharp reason to demonic visions to irrational fervor-but nearly all are glossed over. With hardly a suggestion of the poet who wrote A Mighty Fortress Is Our God, John Osborne concentrates on the crude-voiced Luther whose notable preoccupation with bodily functions produced the line: "If I break wind in Wittenberg, they smell it in Rome...
...Lampoon found itself in trouble again after its infamous "Esquire" issue in spring 1935; in righteous disciplinary fervor the Administration closed down the "Poon establishment while officers scrambled to desert the sinking ship. Only the autumn before, the CRIMSON, Lampoon, and Life magazine had gone on sale in tandem at a combined price of $5.00, never again to be duplicated. A mild stir arose at the vague revival of the Med. Fac, Club, open to any undergraduate who could commit anything which would have him expelled and jailed if caught. But the revival died quickly; members succeeded only in blowing...
...abuse is famed Historian Arnold J. Toynbee. His massive, ten-volume Study of History (TIME, Oct. 18, 1954) left him vulnerable on at least two scores: 1) it became the most widely discussed history of modern times, and popularity is a crown most scholars professionally deplore with the same fervor that they secretly pray for it; 2) Toynbee had attempted to rise above "microscopic" research, impose a grand order on world history in terms of civilizations, and then to move beyond even that to the great religions. There, Toynbee declared, man's summit goal was nothing less than...
...years old, he hobbled about in cork-stuffed orthopedic boots, looking so grotesque that, he recalls, classmates dubbed him "the ape man.' Then a friend helped him get aluminum legs. Overnight he "grew" from 3 ft. 8 in. to 5 ft. 8 in., became imbued with a fervor to give the same sort of boost to other handicapped...