Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Much the same is true in Eastern Europe, reports TIME Correspondent David Aikman. The human rights campaign is cheered not only by the active opponents of the harsh Communist regimes but also by most of the people, who fondly associate the policy with the kind of American evangelical fervor that prompted Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points. As Soviet Dissident Andrei Amalrik told Aikman: "The morality of the West is human rights...
...moral matters, few politicians match the fervor of Cleveland's three-term Republican mayor, Ralph J. Perk, 63. Last month he had 70 city sanitation workers deliver questionnaires on pornography to 260,000 local households. Hizzoner's avowed aim: to establish a community standard on obscenity, in line with the 1973 Supreme Court ruling on the need for local criteria for jury decisions in obscenity cases...
...have the talent but little opportunity; while there are those with even less chance. The eager, almost fanatical youngsters of Puerto Rico, where youth baseball has been uncorrupted by the small-time ambitions of fat Little League coaches, all hope to follow their idol, Roberto Clemente, with a pathetic fervor. Pathetic because, for all their talent, Puerto Ricans make it only if they are stars; white owners do not like many Puerto Rican bench jockeys...
...President, our author continued, described himself as "an idealist, with the heart of a poet." He wrote of his love of wife, family or friends with an un ashamed sentimental fervor that embarrassed some and amused others. Sometimes, the historian wrote, the President substituted a beguiling jargon for a program. The President explained at times that he would carry out liberal and reforming programs along conservative lines of action. He would preach a new morality...
Harvard did not escape last fall's swine-fluvaccine fervor, and the University Health Services (UHS) set up a vaccination program. Seventeen per cent of the eligible Harvard community members took the shots before the program was discontinued. The vaccine appeared to provoke a rare syndrome--producing temporary paralysis--in isolated cases, and federal officials decided to end the mass-immunization effort...