Word: perfervidly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thor Heyerdahl, have attempted unsuccessfully to answer these familiar questions. The latest expedition was led by a French ethnologist, Francis Maziere, who in 1963 took himself, his Polynesian wife and an adventurous friend to Easter Island for a nine-month stay. In this translation of his absorbing though frequently perfervid text, Maziere describes discoveries that seem to open a crack into the heart of the prehistoric puzzle. In doing so, however, he had inadvertently generated another mystery: were the discoveries made by Maziere, or did he borrow some of his facts from Father Sebastian Englert...
...take out after "scummy anarchists" and pseudo intellectuals. In Springfield, Mo., he drew the biggest political crowd ever to assemble in the city square-more than 10,000 people. In Milwaukee, 5,000 filed into the municipal auditorium, along with 600 hecklers, to listen to Wallace's perfervid oratory. Nearly everywhere, he put forth a strident defense of the nation's police. "If they could run this country for about two years," he cried, "they'd straighten...
There are indeed signs that New Hampshire Republicans are warming to the outsider, whose supporters are spreading the word that "Romney's right." On the stump, Romney does nothing to belie his slogan's perfervid moralizing by stressing the need to discipline children and hold families together. "There didn't used to be the cynicism there is today," sighed Romney at a Plaistow kaffeeklatsch...
...modern languages, an abolitionist, Ambassador to Spain and the Court of St. James's, author of The Bigelow Papers, and of course poet and perfervid hymn writer ("By the light of burning martyrs, Jesus' bleeding feet I track"). From yet another family branch came Amy Lowell (1874-1925), who wrote passable "imagist" verse, smoked cigars, and drove a claret-colored limousine. "To my family," says Robert Lowell, "James was the Ambassador to England, not a writer. Amy seemed a bit peculiar to them. She was never a welcome subject in our household...
...adultery to become an adult himself, he cowers at her country estate writing mystical verse. Mama runs off with Uncle Maurice to Australia, and Norman is thrown out in "the cold, frowzy, unseasoned city ether" to begin a series of misadventures while trying to live the life of his perfervid daydreams...