Word: fervors
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...downright antique, the antithesis of hip. Imagine a communist partygoer, desperately trying to turn the conversation to surplus value over the strains of Soulja Boy’s new single, “Yahhh!” Unlucky fellow.What was once a fiery outlet for leftist political fervor has been spoilt by a suite of suppressive bourgeois mechanisms; in its place slips the anesthetic comfort of supporting Barack Obama, perhaps ‘preferring’ Dennis Kucinich. Students themselves aren’t to blame for this zeallessness, though, but the confluence of events utterly beyond our control.Not least...
...from clear how a Maoist-dominated government will govern. The economy is a war-ruined shambles; some question whether revolutionary fervor will translate into fiscal acumen. Although the election went off with few hitches, the voting was marred in part by the vigilantism of Maoist youth cadres. Prachanda must rein them in as well as convince nervous neighbors India and China of his group's commitment to stable, multiparty democracy...
...mathematical’ probability that Obama’s growing delegate lead will spell victory after or even before the remaining eight contests remaining have been settled. But before the verdict is announced, no matter its nature, anyone who has followed this roller coaster campaign trail with fervor or mere bemusement should appreciate what this extraordinary race has meant for America, and the tantalizing balance that, still hanging in the air, will only give way to a new one in August...
...also commended for its attempts to apply renewed energy to publicizing the event: Campus walls and notice boards will be adorned with posters, dining halls might host the thumping beats of DeGraw’s and Wu-Tang Clan’s music in order to rally musical fervor, and student groups will get inundated with announcements and e-mail reminders to bring out their constituents in droves. Just as important as the event’s content and pub has been the timing: Instead of being held on a weekend afternoon, Yardfest 2008 will happen on a Friday night...
...HUDSON REVIEW puts out its 60th-anniversary edition this month, celebrating its longevity with a concert at the Guggenheim Museum and a book, Writes of Passage. The Review, which promised at its inception not to "open its pages to those whose only merits lie in their anguish, their fervor, and their experimentation," is not the biggest nor the most prestigious of the literary-periodical set, but it has nurtured the early careers of such now familiar names as W.S. Merwin, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton and Wallace Stevens. And it has the distinction of having chosen a title that doesn...