Word: fervors
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...particularly vehement defense of Mr. Rumsfeld. Squash star-cum-photographer Carlin E. Wing ’02, on the other hand, sends forth e-mails rife with anti-establishment sentiment, hoping beyond hope that she can convert me to a sense of normalcy. At my moments of severe military fervor, however, my gentle artistic roommate, Avra C. Van Der Zee ’02—always kind—simply looks at me aghast...
...very adaptability helped him see both sides of any issue. In Double Indemnity insurance man Edward G. Robinson spits out suicide rates with the fervor of a baseball-stats maven. In The Fortune Cookie shyster Walter Matthau says that insurance companies have too much money: "They've run out of storage space--they have to microfilm it... So don't give me with the scruples." Wilder never straddled the fence; he trampolined from one side to the other...
When Andrea Dworkin speaks, her voice quivers with the fervor of reckoning. “Women,” she says, a hand clutched to her chest, “want to have an interior life. Women want to be able to know what introspection is. Women want to have a self that’s real, not one that’s torn into little pieces and thrown out with the garbage. Women refuse self-annihilation...
That's why I feel myself drawn to this year's Games with a fervor I didn't quite expect: every night, dependably and wonderfully, they deliver small, verifiable results. There's suspense first, of course, but it's tolerable suspense--nothing like waiting for Congress to vote on campaign-finance legislation or sitting through a year of Enron hearings to find out whether the poker-faced Ken Lay is history's biggest con man or sorriest dupe. It was nip and tuck there for a while before Bode Miller finally took the silver in the men's combined downhill...
...dead, my dear, with a Union Jack--unless it were some campy '60s relic of Carnaby Street. In France the Tricolor flies from every town hall--but I have never seen one outside my French friends' houses. If you lived through the horrors of Europe's last century, patriotic fervor is a dish that comes a little too highly seasoned with memories of nationalism, war and genocide...