Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Historically, immigrants have tended to vote Democratic, but this is no longer so predictable. Many Cubans, Koreans, Taiwanese and Vietnamese came with strong anti-Communist fervor, and President Reagan's appeal has broken open many traditionally Democratic groups...
...instant planes are hijacked, hostages seized, embassies blown up or sleeping Marines killed, that particular battle has been lost. We can only try to limit the defeat. The task that we have rarely undertaken with fervor and ingenuity is anticipating and preventing the next tragedy, to the extent that is possible. The invasion of Grenada stands as a notable and successful example...
...Some critics read more ominous messages in the film's popularity. They contend that it reflects a growing antiCommunist fervor and could help make military conflicts in Nicaragua or elsewhere more acceptable at home. Others argue that the film is serving a legitimate therapeutic function. "We're in the process of assimilating Viet Nam into our American experience," says Henry Graff, professor of history at Columbia University. "Pictures like Rambo allow us to think it through 20 years later without the pain of the casualty lists before us." Stallone is impatient with critics who call the film reactionary...
...bewildered in the thickening mist" presents the wen at its gloomist. Also intriguing are Hannah More and William Parsons' words on the tumuluous bred riots that swept the nation towards the end of the century. And Mary Alcock's "The Chimney Sweeper's Complaint" whisks in the industrial fervor...
Taken by itself, the fervor of the divestment and disinvestment movements is somewhat incredible; the sight of college students agitating over stock policy might seem some sort of yuppie nightmare. The im- sort of yuppie nightmare. The impassioned tenor of these disputes makes sense only in the context of the broader anti-apartheid movement--which makes sense only in the context of apartheid...