Word: fervor
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...French response to De Gaulle was strongly emotional, but the French are, au fond, a pre-eminently reasonable rather than sentimental people. So long as there seemed a plausible correlation between De Gaulle's aims and France's means, the fervor for the Cross of Lorraine held firm. But the moment De Gaulle got beyond what French common sense thought to be feasible, he began to gradually lose his constituency until finally it was gone...
...their own, they have been continually challenged in the West by the Socialists, and lately by the anarchistic students of the New Left. On May Day last week both the Communists and their challengers, while occasionally clashing with each other and police, failed to project the heady fervor of earlier years...
...Many denounce the Viet Nam war as "an intellectuals' war," because assorted academics helped conduct it. Meantime, the New Left has attacked liberals for having failed to cure the country's social ills. Caught in this cross fire, the intellectuals are wavering between passive despair and revolutionary fervor. Today, many intellectuals are unsure of where they fit into U.S. life, unsure of how to apply their intelligence to rational reform -even unsure of just what an intellectual is, or ought...
...Your article reminded me of an anecdote related by my father, who was born near Abilene, Kans., in 1888. During the patriotic fervor following the blowing up of the battleship Maine in 1898, my father and his contemporaries frequently played soldier. They refused to let Ike Eisenhower play. He was too little...
...lower depths of his Inferno. Inhabiting this new pit of horror would be the warring Negro leaders of Harlem and the meddling white man who tries to understand them. It is just such a journey into hell that D. Keith Mano, a white author, describes with Dantesque fervor in his second novel, Horn...