Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Moreover, Likud is not the most hawkish party in Israel, nor is Shamir the most extreme member of Likud. For reasons of party politics, Shamir may opt for a noisy show of ideological fervor on West Bank settlements. Indeed, already he has called for "Zionist economics" (mirroring the equally vague "Islamic economics...
Students know this. We are all able to see the element of absurdity in the conflict of sixties youthful idealism and the eighties middle-aged complacency. The fervor of today's youth is tempered by cynicism. Not even the most drugaddled mind at the Reality Fest believed that the event was for a good cause...
...lapsed into memories of his childhood in the Rumanian town of Sighet. "I was still in the mood of Neilah, the final moments of the Yom - Kippur service," he recalled. "I saw myself as a child in Sighet, behind my father and next to my grandfather, praying with fervor." The reverie was soon interrupted by the clamor of journalists and international well-wishers. "This honor is not mine alone," Wiesel announced at a press conference later that day. "It belongs to all the survivors who have tried to do something with their pain, with their memory, with their silence, with...
Harvard students, generally apathetic about the Dartmouth game, save their fervor for the Yale game, despite occasional attempts by Dartmouth folk to arouse their antagonism...
...male prostitute, his world fell apart. He lost his seat in Congress. His marriage broke up. His faith, Roman Catholicism, demanded a repentance that he did not feel. And his conservative colleagues disowned him while his former enemies on the left showed compassion. This realization, which inspired a newfound fervor for civil rights, forms the centerpiece of his disorganized but surprisingly poignant autobiography. Bauman's dilemma was that being gay was incompatible with political life. So he wed and started a family but went on cruising for boys, for which he shows scant contrition. He asserts that homosexuals number...