Word: fervor
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...context of a war that has none of the clear-cut aspects of Pearl Harbor, at a time when the country's internal problems are being examined with unprecedented intensity and emotion, and under a President who, despite all his efforts, has not been able to stir fervor in the hearts of his countrymen...
Despite a declining fervor for the civil rights movement, students are still eager to hear from two Negro militants: Stokely Carmichael and Dick Gregory. When they seek a religious figure, campus organizations think first of two unconventional Episcopal clergymen: the Rev. Malcolm (Are You Running with Me, Jesus?) Boyd and Bishop James A. Pike. Among academics, Economist John Kenneth Galbraith this year seems to be slightly more in vogue than Communications Theorist Marshall McLuhan...
This problem will undoubtedly persist for several years in a society such as Cuba, marked to its core by the fervor, passion and impatience of a young revolution. But meanwhile the technicians are being trained, and the economy continues to move forward surprisingly well, considering its isolation from the rest of the Western Hemisphere...
...magazines such as Guns, Guns & Ammo, Muzzle Blasts and Precision Shooting, have published mostly technical articles on the proper care and handling of firearms and the most proficient ways to bring down everything from varmints to Viet Cong. But lately they have been devoting more space and fervor to a campaign against legal control of gun sales. No. 1 target is Senator Thomas Dodd's bill, which would limit the interstate sale of firearms through the mail. Guns & Ammo called the bill's supporters "criminal-coddling do-gooders, borderline psychotics as well as Communists and leftists who want...
...than in Brazil. There are now 2,600,000 Pentecostalists in that nominally Catholic country-a gain of 1,100,000 since 1962. A major reason for the harvest is that, despite the Brazilians' traditionally easygoing approach to religion, many seem to be drawn by the intimacy and fervor of Pentecostal services, the joyous and uninhibited hymn singing, and the upright rigidity of the church's moral standards (no smoking or drinking...