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...Militant Fervor. On Maundy Thursday, Mrs. Martha Crawford, 39, mother of ten, was killed in a crossfire between snipers and British troops. In response, Andersonstown members of Belfast's nonsectarian Women Together-launched 18 months ago to combat violence-drew about 200 neighbors to a Catholic school hall last week to urge an end to the bombings and shootings...
Pacino threw himself into school plays with such fervor that his teachers urged that he be sent to the High School of Performing Arts. There, despite his acting talent, his grades were lackluster. After leaving school at 17, he began what he calls "the lost years, moving from job to job, furnished room to furnished room, always broke." He had started drinking at 13. Now he was drinking more. He lost a job as a movie usher after he prankishly led a line of ticket holders across the street to stand aimlessly in front of a department store. Finally...
Augsberger, President of Eastern Mennonite College, Harrisonburg, Va., said the Bible predicted an increased religious fervor among the young before the end of the world...
...Andre Cayatte (Tomorrow Is My Turn) has derived a lumpish film from it. Love Story would appear to be another inspiration. The lovers in To Die of Love smooch, swoon and suffer with a fervor that would bring a blush of recognition to Jenny Cavilleri's wan cheek...
...this is that less passion and fewer moral absolutes ought to be applied to global affairs. If the U.S. in the past had not so vehemently condemned all Communists, and most especially the Chinese, today's surprise would have been less unsettling. If the moralistic fervor of a Dulles-and yes, at one time, a Nixon-had not been so readily emulated, Chinese and U.S. leaders might have been talking to each other in unpolemic terms long ago. Nor would such U.S. allies as Japan and Taiwan have been quite so outraged by the Nixon odyssey. Neither would there...