Word: fervor
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...There was a fervor about the new world we would create after the Nazimenace was eliminated," Goodman recalls. "We never asked any real questions. After the war we came back to Harvard to regain lost time...
...theologians argue that man's despoliation of nature has drawn encouragement in part from mistaken or misapplied Christian concepts. By correcting those concepts, they hope to bolster environmental concern with something that goes beyond moral fervor or social awareness. The God of Genesis, say these thinkers, did not give man a blank check when he said: "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion . . . over every living thing." Too often this has been used as a text for exploitation, reducing nature to a collection of useful objects...
...display of pro-Nixon sentiment was impressive, and the patriotic fervor was sincere. Yet the street rallies of the hardhats in New York City are complicated by their animosity toward campus protesters and long-haired youths, their fear of inflation and recession, their political grudges against Mayor Lindsay. Union leaders rarely have any difficulty in turning out big crowds−especially on a spring day and at full pay. But more significantly, blue-collar workers are apparently discovering, as countless college students have found, that there is a certain satisfaction in the camaraderie of expressing feelings en masse...
Over the years, American writers such as Nathaniel West and Ross MacDonald have taken Southern California as a symbol for a national apocalypse to come. Now Charles Manson has given this symbol a new dimension. Unless we pursue the drug murders committed in our name with the same fervor we pursue the political murders being committed in the name of our parents, the Day of the Locust may turn out to be a plague on both our houses...
Kennedy's behavior in New York politics illustrated a dichotomy in his personality. Often he would throw himself into some political crusade with an almost reckless fervor while at other times his cautiousness would inhibit him from making any commitment. This ambivalence surfaced later when he tried to decide whether or not he should run for the Presidency. The authors document the consequences of the inner contradiction in Kennedy's character, but they never explore it directly...