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Harvard deflated its opponents' patriotic fervor with the 20-point victory, snapping a nine-year William and Mary home unbeaten streak in the process...
...They are the world's gastronomers royal. But they exact from their followers a literally heavy price -in calories and cholesterol. Their creations call for churns of butter, streams of cream and eggs by the dozen. With the late great Chef Fernand Point, they cry with all the fervor of a Richard III, "Du beurre! Donnez-moi du beurre! Toujours du beurre...
...nevertheless thinks that Bultmann's evasion of the resurrection as a historical event is rationally untenable. As circumstantial evidence, he cites the early church's unshakable belief in it. Unless Christ actually rose from the grave, Pannenberg reasons, how can a historian plausibly account for the blazing fervor of the early Christians...
This "nice symmetry" is even nicer calculation. For the historical fervor fostered by the Bicentennial promises to turn 1876 into a quasi-official happening. Prepublication signs have been uniformly bullish. Random House and Ballantine Books jointly paid Vidal an advance approaching $1 million for hardback and paperback rights. The Book-of-the-Month Club, which has made 1876 its main selection for March, shelled out more than twice its normal fee of $85,000. A first printing of 75,000 copies has virtually disappeared under a flood of orders, and a second printing...
...resignations may have been politically inspired. All three of the engineers are members of the Creative Initiative Foundation, a California-based organization that seeks to strengthen human relationships and instill in its members a reverence for life; C.I.F. members are described by one who dropped out as having "a fervor about changing the world for the better." Bridenbaugh admitted that he and the others might have been "sensitized" to hazards of nuclear plants during C.I.F. classes and group discussions...