Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exacting as well as those for whom it is not exacting enough. Neither can we trust in revolutionary insensitivity. Suffering is real even if it comes in a progressive cause. Nixon's correspondent is deceived. Her son would be no less dead if his death had a meaning. Neither fervor nor ideology can restore life...
Aside from lovers and husbands, the only visitor to the house is the minister who comes to pray at Agnes's deathbed. Bergman admires the minister's recognition of the need for moral faith, and his sincerity and fervor; but his unfolding of a stern Calvinist credo becomes pathetic, particularly as he begins to cry, and tells the sisters that Agnes's faith was stronger than his own. When he leaves with his androgynous layers-out, we are made sharply aware that, for all its period trappings, this is a story about Western man caught in a post-Christian world...
...ambitious Sullivan has sometimes been accused of "sleight-of-mouth" tricks-of changing his views to suit the policy of the moment. The reason is that he frequently argues his own views with passion but, when overruled, feels obligated to argue the official view with equal fervor. As ambassador, he pleaded eloquently against any allied invasion of Laos; back in Washington in early 1971, he argued the case for the South Vietnamese invasion of Laos. Once, when he had stated a point with great conviction, he was reminded by a reporter that he had argued the exact opposite with equal...
AFTER the long weeks of self-imposed silence and isolation that ended with his second Inaugural, President Nixon re-emerged on the Washington scene last week with all the fervor of a missionary among the unbelieving. He delivered to Congress a $268 billion budget with more than 100 cuts in federal spending, and then an economic report promising that 1973 would be a "great year." He announced that he was sending his versatile adviser, Henry Kissinger, first to Hanoi for three days in February, and then to Peking for further talks on improving relations between the U.S. and China...
...Lyndon the patriot, who choked up at the sight of Old Glory on a foreign field and could say-because he wanted to believe it in defiance of the facts-that his great grandfather had died in the Alamo with Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett. Johnson's patriotic fervor made him implacable on Viet Nam, the tragedy that pulled him from office. He was determined that "I'm not going down in history as the first American President to lose a war." He related Viet Nam to Texas: "Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed...