Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...give up. In a poem he gave her for her 41st birthday, Ninoy described his wife as "unruffled by trouble, undeterred by the burden, though heavy the load. Nothing is impossible . . ." His sister Lupita, whose relations with the President have sometimes been frosty, now speaks with the fervor of the converted. "I believe that she was born and raised for this role," she says. "After she spoke before the U.S. Congress, I said to myself, 'Ninoy, you can rest in peace. She is the President...
...taking all the heat for the Administration. Of course, I don't care for myself. But the moral equivalent of the Founding Fathers, the freedom fighters, are really floundering. I mean, it's not like they have any popular support--they need us!" His voice gained fervor...
Trekkies are the Moonies of pop culture. Since the tatty sci-fi series Star Trek went off the air in 1969, they have devoted themselves with canonical fervor to annotating and explicating the 79 episodes. To Trekkies it matters not that the show was bad science and worse fiction, or that its actors, outfitted in futuristic Dr. Dentons, read their portentous lines with nitwit solemnity. The show's only soaring spin-off was Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), in which the cast took a back seat to a splendid special-effects light show that made an eloquent case...
This popular fervor for abstinence, undreamed of just a few years ago, surely is no harbinger of a new puritanism. But it may open up some room for sex education to overtake its critics. In exchange for the abstinence message being treated with respect, many conservative opponents seem likely to follow Surgeon General Koop and accept sex instruction in the schools. As Koop himself seems to argue, there is really no other choice...
...experts are pondering this lack of ideological fervor now that the tallies are all in. Pollster Louis Harris is up in Pound Ridge, N.Y., watching the leaves fall and writing a book on the new political climate. What he sees is a transitional time from the shortcomings of Ronald Reagan's crusade. It boils down to a "battle over the center." By definition, that means moderation, caution, reasoned argument about what is on this hand and what is on the other hand...