Word: fervor
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Garry said that the "fervor" of American youth has apparently decreased so that they feel "the same degree of helplessness as my generation...
...McCarthy holds second-place in the political hearts of college students. He outdistances. Muskic, Kennedy and McGovern. However, the poll registers all opinions. Among politically active students, McCarthy is doubtless regarded with less esteem. And while most students admire McCarthy, they would not support him with the old fervor...
...words, "an imaginative vision of subject-man-whether he lives in the city, ancient or modern, in a village-as a creature never fully acclimatized, always an alien spirit even in the most intimate surroundings." Her work is mystical, even iconographical, with bold colors straining toward the fervor of stained glass. A triptych on the death and rebirth of the city captures a corner of the room with a strident assertion of group-hope...
...rival Roses warred for Sway-For Sway, but named the name of Right; And Passion, scorning pain and death, Lent sacred fervor to the fight...
Peter's tone of voice as he tells the story keeps the plot from lapsing into farce. Melancholy, not revolutionary fervor, afflicts him. Tolerantly, he still laughs at his father's dull jokes and politely listens to his college adviser. Nevertheless, he speaks for ambivalent, marijuana-struck youth when he wryly observes the machinelike aspects of civilization and objects to the meaninglessness of a life in which people become what they are "least afraid of becoming." Given such a context, Peter calculates that pot, with all its drawbacks, provides a means of honest and pleasurable rebellion and escape...