Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like a new management team taking over a multinational corporation, Dean Fox made some startling changes in the undergraduate housing system in his first year as dean of the College. Students, caught off balance, responded with a fervor exceeding their reaction to purely political, although less close to home, issues...
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Carter conceded that foreign policy cannot be conducted "by rigid moral maxims. We live in a world that is imperfect." In effect, he was replying to critics who claim that he has not applied his fervor for human rights universally, since he has soft-pedaled violations committed by U.S. allies such as South Korea, the Philippines and Iran. Carter's implied response was that in some instances, U.S. interests might properly call for downplaying the rights issue. Yet Carter insisted that "America's commitment to human rights is a fundamental tenet of our foreign policy...
...physical fitness is upon us like a wet spaniel, bigger than talking to plants, more numbing in the fervor of its adherents than encounter-group therapy. This is a startling development for the nation that invented the electric golf cart, the pushbutton car window and the drive-in mortuary, but it is happening...
Participants in such programs tend to talk about running with a special fervor, and so do their doctors. "Man was made a two-legged animal because he was meant to use his legs," says Dr. J.V. Shivde, one of Dr. Nequin's assistants. "We don't know what one thing causes heart attacks, but two of the risk factors are inactivity and psychological tension. Jogging is an answer for both. We can't say that exercise arrests heart disease, though there is some evidence that it may. But at least with exercise, if you have a heart...