Word: fervor
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...Bach Society's year and to Stulberg's career as its conductor. Both the orchestra and the audience responded enthusiastically to the resounding final chords of the piece, sharing the poignantly conflicting feelings associated with the end of an outstanding year. In its technical polish and emotional fervor, the performance of the Brahms was emblematic of the Bach Society's season...
Bartlett and his fellow caddies imbued with a missionary fervor, have gone a long way towards propagating the game. Another notable golfing afficionado was a British army captain named Joseph Cambell, who had his humble origins as a caddy in Glasgow. Cambell was commanding the British stockade in the Bahamas when he got a craving for the links. He set to work fashioning makeshift clubs out of bamboo saplings and used knots of the native lignum vitae tree to mold golf balls. Cambell laid out a course on the parade grounds below Nassau, and gold was born...
...immigrant reaction was swift and sudden. The Jews' strong communal sense, Howe suggests, opened them to the socialist organization brought by radicals arriving from Warsaw and Vilna after 1905. Socialism became for the Jews a belief, as idealistic fervor, which, the immigrants hoped, would bring the actuality of their American world closer to their original vision of it. The new Bund leaders snatched their chances in the shirtwaist makers strike of 1909 which made of a brave but undisciplined group of female shopworkers the members of a recognized ILGW union and a year later, in the cloak-makers strike which...
...dieting gets out of control, Bruch believes, because the anorexic expects it to bring about effectiveness and respect. Since no amount of weight loss can achieve these goals, the anorexic becomes frantic and pursues the diet with renewed fervor. The desire for control of one's life is replaced by the desire to control the body...
...sold out to the White Man. She attempts, through occasional beatings and one painfully long evangelical scene, to indoctrinate her daughters with her anti-Black attitudes. Despite the banality of Mama's lines, Cheryl Wright gives the character convincing force by her energetic portrayal. Her features contorted with evangelical fervor, she propels the play through some of its shakiest moments...