Word: fervor
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...outburst of moral fervor, the New York state legislature decided that incarceration was the proper treatment for any youth between 16 and 21 who "is willfully disobedient or deserts his home, and is morally depraved or in danger of becoming morally depraved." That Wayward Minor statute-paralleled by similar laws in most other states-allowed thousands of youngsters who had never committed any crime to be imprisoned along with hardened criminals...
...bronzes. Degas' dancers, and an enchanting portrait by Gustave Courbet. But the same tendencies toward the traditional that provide such great work, hinder Pulitzer's choice; the artists of the 60's look unexciting compared to the Master Photographers next door who treat their medium with a clarity and fervor. And although Pulitzer's masters shine, his efforts to furnish answers to problems of the creative eye, barely ask the primary questions. With Harvard's new committee to investigate the situation of the undergraduate, arts program, the Fogg will acquire more progressive tastes, that will recognize the truly provocative from...
Died. Arthur Spingarn, 93, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People from 1940 to 1966; in Manhattan. Arthur and Joel Spingarn, sons of a well-to-do Jewish tobacco merchant, were so moved by the 1909 Lincoln Day Call-a manifesto of neo-Abolitionist fervor that urged an uplift movement for blacks-that they joined the founders of the N. A. A.C.P. Joel became the group's second president while Arthur headed its national legal committee. Arthur marched in the streets to protest lynchings, and smashed glasses in the Manhattan saloons that discouraged integrated patronage...
...Topo is a film with such an atmosphere of religious fervor around it that I am hesitant to criticize it for fear of being either damnably sacriligious or damnably wrong about it. The center of the cult is New York, where before the movie officially premiered three weeks ago, it had been showing downtown unofficially for six months, once daily at midnight. It sold out easily every weekend. Its popularity has continued undiminished by the move to a Times Square theatre which shows the film five times a day. The audiences--almost entirely under 25 and freaky--leave the theatre...
...tension characteristic of American democracy. Policy is not created to realize quixotic ideals. No American President invaded Vietnam to preserve freedom. The reasons were partly economic, partly diplomatic, partly strategic. Perhaps even a bit idealistic. But surely altruism was not the motivating cause. Wide-eyed idealism and self-righteous fervor thrive amid official justifications and popular explanations. Among themselves, the professionals are somewhat less noble...