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...numbers from 5,000 in 1945 to 30,000 today; the number of their private worship places has risen from 70 to 425, some of them clandestine. In fact, one of the most challenging problems for Spain's Protestants will be to try and preserve the same fervor in their churches now that the period of official suppression has more or less ended...
...could it have been otherwise in a man so courageous in the quest of his ideals? One of the many stories told of him yesterday in this city may catch the quality of his influence. A student whose fervor for a certain cause of civil liberty had been dampened by the shrillness of its adherents went to hear Howe defend it. To the student it seemed that every word was a fiery dart of reasoned anger that pierced beyond all doubts. Possibly Mark Howe never guessed how many there were whose hearts he touched with fire because they sensed...
Undoubtedly the draft is responsible for some of this sudden upsurge in academic fervor. Lester sees still other causes. "During the Kennedy years," he says, "students were more enthusiastic about government service. Now they want something to fall back on. It's not just Johnson's personal nature...it's also...
Brooke has never rallied his race to challenge segregation barriers with the inspirational fervor of a Martin Luther King. Unlike Thurgood Marshall, Roy Wilkins or Philip Randolph, he has not been a standard-bearer in the civil rights movement. He has made none of the volatile public breakthroughs to equality of a Jackie Robinson or a James Meredith. He has triggered none of the frustrated fury of a Stokely Carmichael, written none of the rancorous tracts of a James Baldwin or a LeRoi Jones, drawn none of the huzzahs of a Louis Armstrong or a Joe Louis, a Willie Mays...
...Commissioner of Education, he named former Scarsdale Schools Superintendent Harold Howe II, 48, a skillful administrator whose choice reflects Gardner's lifelong crusade for better education. The ultimate purpose of education can move this ascetic, unflappable man to evangelistic fervor. "The idea of individual fulfillment within a framework of moral purpose," he says, "must become our deepest concern, our national preoccupation, our passion, our obsession." What rankles him is the fact that so few educators seem to share his concern. Only a fraction of 1% of all the billions spent on education goes to research. In many American schools...