Word: fervor
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...Bellow's The Adventures of Augie March, Henderson the Rain King and Herzog, there is also a vigorous mix of farce and moral fervor in Humboldt's Gift. Charles Citrine, the book's late middle-aged hero, is-like Bellow-a dedicated resident and booster of Chicago. The son of Jewish immigrants, he has made a name for himself as a Pulitzer-prizewinning biographer, essayist and playwright. LIFE has commissioned him to write an intimate article on Bobby Kennedy. The French government has honored him with an Order of the Chevalier, which entitles him to wear...
...they have a strong influence on their father, who faithfully rocks along of does his best to conform to whatever newfangled stuff the boys are into. He were sheepish long hair and display's peace symbol--probably a legacy them hit friend Seager rather than his own political fervor--on his gaiter strop. But the adds still when an old number comes up--he's still the Gibraltar of the band. And it's a fine band, particularly now that Randy has become as good a picker as Doc Watson: it gets awesome to think of where...
...story: Tolstoy's War and Peace. What he finally produced in 1943, however, was written in an almost schizoid style-part introspective love story, part heroic showpiece-that was difficult to grasp, easy to misunderstand. Stalin's commissars gave only grudging approval, demanded more pageantry and patriotic fervor. At his death in 1953, the composer was still rewriting the work. He never saw it fully staged...
Speaking in Russian while a translator simultaneously rendered his remarks into English, Solzhenitsyn projected the same sense of intense moral fervor that has made him one of the world's major authors. Understandably, he bitterly attacked Communism as an enemy of the human spirit. But Solzhenitsyn went on to criticize American foreign policy toward the Soviet Union. The U.S., he said, should never have cooperated with the Russians in any way, not even in forming the alliance against Hitler during World War II, and he implied that the U.S. should still be fighting Communism in Indochina...
Since the real shark is about 16 ft. long, and the fictional great white in Jaws no less than 24, Rizzo's diminutive height would make the real fish look bigger. Rizzo understood all this. He did not count, however, on the fervor of the great white. Beginning his first descent, he watched one shark attack the Taylors' boat. Vexed, it sideswiped Rizzo, ripped his cage from its cable and took it to the bottom. Carl shot out of the water and headed for cover...