Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surface, whether he's breaking down the door or erecting a new one to keep the world out, and McDonough provides this desperate vitality. When he repents his first act drunkenness (and his entrance in a garbage can, surely an inspired bit of dramatic symbolism) with typical quixotic fervor, the futility becomes only more apparent. He can rant and rave but never escape the curse...
While these booboos were occurring, moreover, the Globe was taking a beating over its treatment of Mike Manoogian, a blind news dealer who has been hawking papers with oldtime fervor ("Big story! Big story!") since 1936. In December Manoogian was cut off by the Globe, which said he had swiped some copies from a newspaper vending machine. But when one of the man's longtime customers wrote a protesting letter to the publisher, she got back a haughty reply accusing Manoogian of "thievery." Copies of the letter given to local newscasters turned TV and radio on to the case...
...independent race after the GOP rejects him, they sometimes compare student enthusiasm for him to past surges for former Senator Eugene McCarthy and Sen. George S. McGovern (D--S.D.). But in the absence of a burning emotional issue like Vietnam, the Anderson campaign is distinguished less by moral fervor than by intellectual smugness. There is a second anti-draft candidate today, but the attention he attracts is due too much to the magic of his name with the sub-rational masses, while Anderson's charm lies in a novel new variety of common sense which, we are led to believe...
SPEAKING with the tepid fervor of a Calvinist who has repressed even the heat of his Puritanism, President Carter last Friday solemnly painted his own vision of how the nation can at last conquer inflation and recapture past economic glory. It is a narrow vision, with no bold initiatives to harness the energy and resources of the American people. Instead, it demands they submit passively to "pain" and "discipline." Fifteen times those dolorous syllables rolled from the President's pursed lips...
...small neighboring country, then they will be in some serious way discomfited by it." Some effects may be undesirable. The boycott may help create even more of a cold war climate in the U.S.S.R.; Soviet leaders may exploit the atmosphere, as they have in the past, conjuring up socialist fervor to counter the threat from the West. It is also possible, predicts Dimitri Simes, an analyst at Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies, that the Kremlin will use alienation from the West to justify greater repression and internal control...