Word: fervors
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...impossible and undesirable. Instead we aim for fairness and balance. Since the introduction of bylines in 1970 (writers had labored anonymously before), many individual voices have been heard in TIME. Even so, we maintain a broad consistency of policy and beliefs. But we assert these beliefs with less evangelical fervor than was sometimes the case in the past. The change does not so much reflect an American crisis of faith?though that crisis is real?as indicate the world's growing diversity and complexity...
...President had fought a single-handed fight without parallel in U.S. history. He did it all himself, after Democratic liberal and labor leaders had tried their best to depose him. He had plugged and pounded his way across the country. He had a kind of self-induced fervor which roused the admiring cry of "Pour it on, Harry...
Most political figures try to avoid controversy. Some have controversy thrust upon them. But Interior Secretary James G. Watt does things differently. He thrusts himself upon controversy with the fervor of an ancient Roman hurling himself on his own sword...
Personally, I believe that the fervor of the pro-life movement will eventually burn out; at the same time. I also believe that our society will evolve to such a point that the concern for human life will make abortion a socially and morally objectionable practice, as well as useless. In the meantime, responsible debate on the issue of abortion should continue; articles like Ms. Idelson's, however, only serve to mislead and confuse, instead of instruct and enlighten. Michael T. Matthews...
...else. Michener tells the reader that she plays Chopin mazurkas "as if she must make an important statement for all Poles living in exile..." and that she has been Wiktor's mistress for two nights, but he has shown us nothing that would prove the basis of such political fervor or such a character. So little space is devoted to each historical episode that nothing "extraneous" to the main point seeps in. Any triviality which might make a character human might obscure the character's clearly designated role, might compromise the book's neat conclusion--any such detail is glossed...