Word: fervor
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Despite Whiteman's fervor, Butler -- explaining that he did not want to risk exposing his followers to an "AIDS-infected" mob -- decided to call off his parade after local human-rights activists promised to bring in up to 3,000 protesters to stage an opposition march (1,200 showed up last Saturday). Butler had to settle for a diatribe-filled "skinhead seminar" attended by a pathetic audience of some 50 racists at his nearby compound in Hayden Lake...
Instead, the student radicals at Harvard joined an already well-established network of campus movements across the country that had taken on the military-industrial-university establishment with a fervor that eventually found its way to Cambridge...
...January, during three days of meetings that rang with a fervor akin to that of an old-time tent revival, almost 200 residents anted up more than $250,000 to buy a small equity stake in a new Kansas City-based company that plans to produce light aircraft. Townspeople hope their investment will help persuade the company to put its assembly plant in Clay Center, where it would provide 300 jobs. Says Deanna Fuller, a former farmwife who heads the local economic development group: "These people just want to make it possible for the young folks to come back...
...hear this: Jerome Robbins is Broadway's perennial prince charming, and his show is a kiss of life to the Sleeping Beauty of the American musical. "I always felt this might well be the most exciting piece of theater in my lifetime," Jacobs says with unaccustomed fervor. "I certainly hope so." High hopes, yes, but Robbins has usually soared to achieve them. "He is the real Peter Pan," says Mary Martin, who 35 years ago played that role for Robbins. "He loves...
Just as observers readied to write off the latest wave of alumni and student activism, signs of anti-apartheid fervor on campus made their first big headlines of the year, with hints of more to follow...