Word: fests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Love Fest. If Ford ever should withdraw, perhaps because of the health of his wife, the Republican nomination would be up for grabs. Rockefeller would desperately need conservative support to win the honor for himself and to pursue his eternal dream of reaching the White House. Thus in any exigency, the cold logic of presidential politics dictates that Rockefeller must assuage the right-wingers who still see pink whenever they mention his name...
...apologized to the Senate for any "discourtesy" he may have shown Alabama's Democratic Senator James B. Allen. Last February, while chairing the Senate, Rockefeller had angered conservatives by refusing to recognize Allen during debate of a rule change to limit filibustering (TIME, March 17). In the love fest that followed Rockefeller's apology, conservatives in both parties rose to extol the Vice President for his wisdom and generosity...
...Golden Knights fell apart after Bolduc's onslaught between 9:06 and 17:28, and managed to justify the 300 unsold tickets Clarkson returned to the Harvard ticket office this afternoon. The relatively empty Watson Rink was treated to a scoring fest in the third period as the two squads combined for ten goals...
...virtually lifelong refusal to take a wife was transformed into an almost wedded passion for the crowd. Fest subscribes to the idea that Hitler's speeches were a conscious wooing of the masses-to the point of emotional orgasm. The adoration of the crowd in turn would send the Führer into rapture. "What would my life be without all of you!" he once shouted at a meeting, like a rock star stirring up his fans. Indeed, without a crowd to please, he often sank into the kind of moody lassitude that sometimes plagues out-of-work actors...
Despite such lapses into inaction, Fest concludes that Hitler was a man of incredibly strong will. "He made history with a highhandedness that even in his own days seemed anachronistic," writes Fest. "It is unimaginable that history will ever again be made in quite the same fashion-a succession of private inspirations, filled with coups and veerings, breathtaking perfidies, ideological self-betrayals, but with a tenaciously pursued vision in the back ground." Fest believes that "objective factors" in today's politics - presumably such things as international interdependence, vastly increased communications, and resources for popular resistance - would prevent another Hitler...