Word: fervor
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...doing away with all military juntas except those we bring into power. > I am for the sovereignty of Panama in the Canal Zone under the American flag. I am for the stabilizing of all governments of South America while allowing full scope for the natural revolutionary fervor of the people. I am for treating Latin America as a whole, never forgetting for a moment that each of our Latin American neighbors is quite different from the other. In relation to Cuba, I am for the liberation of Cuba without firing a shot. I feel that it is wholly possible...
...peers dourly at the TV camera through opaque, black-rimmed glasses, moves about the studio with the air of someone mentally counting his steps, speaks in a professorial baritone surcharged with a raspy German accent. He has none of Billy Graham's charismatic fervor, or Fulton Sheen's high-gloss oratory; in a tired-blood contest, he would probably run a dead heat with Ed Sullivan...
...Flowers campaign and the Great Leap Forward. To him, then, as a high school student in a foreign land, streetside markets were just as strange and exciting as "criticism and self-criticism" sessions. The innocence of his teen-age impressions is refreshing, a reminder that Peking, despite its revolutionary fervor is, after all, only another city...
...other evils within one another's sectarianism, they eat away at our religious life. The less defensible the practices of a sect, the more it stands to gain by the "conspiracy of silence." While critics of sectarianism generally remain silent, zealous sectarians urge their points of view with emotional fervor. Free and frank evaluation would reduce many evils of sectarianism, but neither sectarian leadership nor sectarian dictatorship willingly submits to such evaluation...
LOVIS CORINTH-Frumkin, 32 East 57th. Sixty self-portraits by the late-blooming German impressionist (1858-1925) offer an authentic study in character. Paintings, prints, drawings and watercolors, ranging from the belabored early works of the artist's 20s to the violent chiaroscuro, powerful brush stroke and emotional fervor of his later years. Through...