Word: fervor
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...poet, Chairman Mao Tse-tung. The poems, published one week after the Great Helmsman's 82nd birthday, were written just over ten years ago, as China was about to begin the chaotic Cultural Revolution. It seems likely that their release now was intended to recall some of the fervor but none of the violence of that period...
BEUSMAN, UNFORTUNATELY, plays Miss Lonelyhearts as a goofy adolescent type who broadcasts his weirdness by making grotesque faces. Unable to convey the fervor of Miss Lonelyhearts' hysterical religiosity, he supplements his limited emotional range with a series of stock expressions and mannerisms--employing a conscious hesitation in his voice, staring stupidly into space, shrugging his shoulders, bouncing up and down on the balls of his feet. Sporting a perennial grimace, Beusman is far better at looking disgusted--as in his first run-in with the man-starved Mrs. Doyle--than at appearing lovable or humane; as a result, his scenes...
...with horses--he blinds six of them for no immediately apparent reason, passion is a misplaced religious feeling for horses as all-seeing gods that developed out of his father's refusal to let him ride a horse when a child and his mother's proselityzing fervor (or so the play simplistically postulates). And the ritual that surrounds this passion plumbs to the depths of the unconscious mind: of sexuality, aggressiveness, bestiality, and the need to explain this world through some from of myth...
...this idea to explain everything about American society these days, and in particular the fall of the various movements of the sixties. The counterculture, despite its noble opposition to technique, tried to create alternatives in a world where there can be no alternatives. It was reacting with hopeful millennial fervor to social upheaval, which was perfectly understandable but led nowhere. Hougan doesn't see the counterculture as political in nature, and in fact he reacts to the New Left with almost unremittent bitterness. The Left in the sixties was "blunt and calculated," he says, "exploiting Vietnam as an opportunity...
...them thinking in particular ways about Assembly issues. Heavy on political consciousness raising, they give a once-over-lightly to traditional belief. Much of the political criticism zeroes in on the West, while Communist and Third World countries are largely exempt. Claims one piece in a flight of revolutionary fervor: Mainland China "is the only truly Christian country in the world." To U.S. Catholic Theologian Avery Dulles, the W.C.C. "has been progressively drawn into a political and social activism that makes little reference to the theological tradition." Within the council, the same complaint comes from Eastern Orthodox members, even some...