Word: fervor
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...respect for moral values." But his sense of divine mission could shift at any moment. Most Grenadians believe that at the very least he will install himself as the island's mightiest powerbroker. Last week the white-shirted Gairy could be seen in his headquarters pointing with messianic fervor to a huge cross and boasting that he had won six of Grenada's last seven elections. U.S. officials concede that Washington would be highly embarrassed if democracy brought Sir Eric back to power. None of Gairy's political rivals, however, can muster much short-term confidence. Herbert...
...different--and perhaps special--about Israelis. It has been said that Jews in the Diaspora look to Israel for qualities that are not found by Diaspora Jews at home. Israel depends on the support of such Jews. This support, though, may be threatened when the idealism, egalitarianism and spiritual fervor of the early settles dissipates, and Western--and seemingly amoral--materialism begins to reign...
...Baptist minister left for Damascus. But now the President graciously thanked the amateur envoy for his "personal mission of mercy." Any questions about Syrian President Hafez Assad's motives for releasing Goodman or the propriety of Jackson's engaging in foreign negotiations were lost in the fervor of the moment. As Reagan put it, "You don't quarrel with success...
...quite matched by his supporting cast. As Annie (a role Meryl Streep declined), Close, in maroon hair and Anthea Sylbert's rummage-sale wardrobe, has the reckless high spirits of an aging cheerleader when she should be the anchor to Henry's fervor. Like the rest of the cast except for the deft, sexy Gallagher, Close serves the script honorably rather than meeting it eye to eye. Nonetheless, The Real Thing is likely to make a star too of Close (who played Sarah in The Big Chill). Even in previews, Close relates, she and Irons were getting...
Across the East River from the Great White Way, some 60 gospel shouters are shaking the Brooklyn Academy of Music with the soaring sounds of religious fervor. The Gospel at Colonus is an unlikely enterprise: the story of Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus as it might be enacted by a black evangelical congregation on a splendid Sunday morning. Sophocles' theme was man's acceptance of the inevitability of death; Adapter-Director Lee Breuer's is the black man's and woman's reconciliation to a hard life in these United States. If Breuer...