Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...latest album, Wild Planet, lashes out at the unconvinced and forces all within listening distance to start dancing with fresh fervor. With this album, the B-52's lay firm claim to the zany territories that their first album (The B-52's) merely staked...
...slices the air with his hands as he talks, shaping some invisible sculpture of an idea, one that he sees with absolute clarity. His head does not move, nor his eyes. Joe Restic is talking about his Multiflex offense, a subject he attacks with the fervor of a zealot...
...author's fervor recalls Ronald Reagan's recent pronouncements, and Rifkin completely ignores the reaction to this decadence, this high-entropy--the resurgence of a moral majority and the advent of a strong right in American politics. Reagan's followers seem to prescribe the "low-entropy society Rifkin craves...
...political virtue. Reagan tried to link Carter with the Ku Klux Klan, and his exaggerations of the state of the world have at times transcended reality. But not even the Democrats suggest that Reagan is mean. Slow, maybe, but nice. Anderson has some of Carter's righteous evangelical fervor, which can be disturbing, but it has not been cruel. He has a perfect right to take a run at the brass ring...
...practical effect of the speech was nil: Kennedy had withdrawn his name from nomination the night before, after losing a rules fight that ended his last chance of prying loose a sufficient number of the 1,982 delegates Carter had won in primaries and caucuses. But the fervor of Kennedy's supporters demonstrated a severe problem, not only for Carter but for all Democrats. The party is searching for, and has not found a new role and a new voice. While its primary votes went to Carter, whose conservative economic policies caused Kennedy to jeer at him as "a clone...