Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...young people, despite the reform movement he has led in the Democratic Party. This has been detected by TIME correspondents, who sense a growing mood of introspection and a feeling that so long as the vast majority of Americans seem likely to vote for the status quo the youthful fervor spent crusading in a cause seems pointless. Whether McGovern, ahead on campus and trailing among youth elsewhere, gets the boost he needs to compete with Nixon in November may well turn on just how many of his young supporters care enough to vote...
...steamroll students into silent acquiescence when, as always, they are presented with a stage managed fait accompli. As a result, intellectual nullity has often been found impressive and even popular, and all that seems demanded of candidates is that they come suitably trailing clouds of au courant nationalist fervor...
...book was not dirty, just pretentious. But Lawrence was attempting "an adjustment in consciousness to the basic physical realities." A tall order that, and one that greatly appealed to the author's radical temperament. Unfortunately, it led him into portentous language and situations, and gives an almost hysterical fervor to his advocacy of relaxed frankness between men and women...
...outdoor action at the Olympic Village is concentrated in the shopping center, where dozens of athletes crying "Changee!" in a Babel of accents meet to exchange Olympic pins with all the fervor of kids trading bubble-gum baseball cards. The indoor hot spot is the Bavaria Club, a shadowy discotheque in the village's recreation center. In the rear of the club, couples in their multicolored sweat suits lounge and embrace in a litter of long, pretzel-like pillows strewn around the floor. The play is also heavy on the center's pinball machines, pool tables, miniature golf course...
...combat zone were a huge football field, the skits are heavyhanded and almost devoid of humor, the songs sing-along antiques from the coffeehouse era. At one point, reading a passage from Dalton Trumbo's antiwar novel Johnny Got His Gun, Sutherland seems paralyzed with moral fervor...