Word: fervor
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...high holy day of the American idea. It is also a beer bust. The Fourth is that odd American mixture of patriotic fervor and bleary ease, of sunburn and a deeper stirring. The Founders adopted the Declaration of Independence in July and not in February (imagine sending fireworks up in a snowstorm), and so the national birthday is both the nation's most powerful rite of communal identity and merely the lazy and unreflective beginning of high summer...
...else an overgrown incompetent. But perhaps Americans have developed a more mature appreciation of themselves. They exhibited last week something of the sweet, intense idealism that they have demonstrated as the Olympic torch has made its way across the U.S. to Los Angeles, and some of the mellowed fervor that they felt on Memorial Day when an Unknown from the Viet Nam War was installed at Arlington National Cemetery. Patriotism seemed finally to transcend politics: the flag wavers last week were Mondale Democrats and Reagan Republicans and political agnostics...
...murder of the Sikhs is yet another tragic example of bloodshed motivated by religious "fervor." Terms like Sikh, Hindu, Jew, Christian and Muslim ring hollow when they are used to sanctify acts of violence. The greatest evil lies not in what religion does to men but in what men do in the name of religion...
...they could see the long roster of names engraved in Cyrillic script on marble tablets along the chamber's walls. The list is an honor roll of czarist military regiments, officers and soldiers who displayed extraordinary bravery in defending the motherland, or rodina, as Russians say with almost mystical fervor. The dignitaries were there to represent the nations most closely allied to the Soviet Union: its six satellites in Eastern Europe, plus three poorer relations from the Third World: Cuba, Viet Nam and Mongolia...
...Harvard Games popularity is no exception on the national Olympic fervor, says Louis Gay, Olympic Sports Manager for Football. The last tickets for the final soccer games in the medal rounds--to be played in the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif.--were sold in December. The crowd of over 100,000 expected to see the Harvard winners play off in the needed rounds for this last game "will be the largest to watch a soccer came in the history of the nation," he adds...