Word: fervor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...study for the Congregational ministry, was promptly fired from his first pulpit for preaching a sermon on "Silly fools, stupid fools and damned fools" which his hearers considered much too personal. Converted to Catholicism four years later, he now writes with the full fervor of the oath he took on abandoning Protestantism to "detest and abjure every error, heresy and sect opposed to the said Holy Catholic and Apostolic Roman Church...
Worried last week was the venerable, stoop-shouldered Bishop of Winchester by the British public's "strange complacency" in the face of blackout road accidents-18,000 deaths since the war began. With high moral fervor, but not too much logic, the Bishop demanded "whether the continued spectacle of suffering may not be dimming the compassion which normally we feel." Whether or not British compassion was dimming, within eight London days...
short-wave newscasters go in the direction of "counter propaganda." NBC's staff of 65 smart writers, producers and linguists has been working for democracy long enough to feel with fervor that the blunt American truth is the best antidote to Goebbelsian innuendo. Of the latter, they know through their correspondence (e.g. 1,170 European, 4,524 South American, 4,908 Central American letters so far this year) their listeners are sick & tired...
...score of years; Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller had called him "the ablest man who has ever appeared before the Supreme Court of the United States." But the objection to Brandeis arose because he was a man of original, unconventional economic opinions, and he held them with moral fervor...
Still, some of the old fire flashes through the Double Concerto. The first movement has a grand fervor and sweep, and the new recording communicates these qualities superbly. Unfortunately there was no opportunity to compare it side by side with the old one of the work, made years ago by Thibaud, Casals, and Cortot conducting Casals' orchestra. That set, one of the oldest in the Victor catalogue, has been recalled. However, it is safe to say that the performances in that version can hardly have excelled those in the new one. And both soloists and orchestra...