Word: fervor
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...agree that Verdi's masterpieces are Otello and Falstaff, then what about Ernani and Macbeth? In finding a level on a kind of musical Richter scale, it implies that you should not be altogether involved with works that get only a 3 or a 5." Yet, with the fervor of the true specialist, he will happily expatiate on Beethoven's metronome markings or Debussy's revisions in Pelléas et Mélisande...
Although Moscow initially was surprised at the fervor of the Afghan resistance movement, the Soviets may no longer be trying to crush the rebels. If the Soviet objective is to control the Afghan government, the major cities and the economy, as well as ensure that its neighbor does not fall prey to an Islamic revolution like Iran's, Moscow may have achieved its goals...
...suburb of Cape Town, starts her journey in modern South Africa, then begins "trekking away from time" back to the 17th century, when a group of Dutch Calvinists sets out for Cape Town. The tiny white minority see themselves as a new chosen people, driven by religious fervor and economic distress. By the 19th century their descendants have become as rooted, as various and as melodramatic as the land. Villet brings them all onstage: the Falstaffian "Oom Paul" Kruger, grandfather to 120, opponent of natives on one hand and Victorian imperialists on the other; Schalk van Niekerk, owner...
...while diligence in defending Jews against political terrorism is admirable, it often distracts attention from the more upsetting motives that may well lie behind such "anti-Israel" fervor. We cannot forget that criticism of Israel itself frequently stems from prejudice against Jews in general and should remember this distasteful really when considering and formulating opinions about the Mideast...
Cuomo is campaigning hard for the Jewish vote, which he has termed crucial to his success. This fervor indeed led him during the primary campaign against Koch to make the little noticed but really quite remarkable--observation that second only to the family home, his biggest single investment is in Israeli bonds Lehrman has matched this ethnic campaigning...