Word: fervor
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Seeger's performances still reflect this basic decency and idealism. He sings about children, migrant workers, peace and martyrs for freedom with the same fervor that has sustained him for 35 years...
...astonishing victory. No statesman now alive, except Yugoslavia's Tito and China's Mao, has so shaped his country's destiny. With his skill, cunning, sense of history and unshakable will, he turned a peasant and impoverished country into a force that exhibited fervor and zeal rarely matched in this century...
...Viet Nam War seems endless in its capacity to generate unpleasant surprises. The latest is the unexpected hostility to accepting Vietnamese refugees into the U.S. It has surfaced suddenly with considerable fervor, and for a variety of often contradictory reasons, all over the country. Senator McGovern, the 1972 presidential peace candidate, says: "I think the Vietnamese are better off in Viet Nam, including the orphans." The manager of a John Birch Society bookstore near the new refugee tent city at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida is afraid of "tropical diseases floating around." Right-wingers worry that there might...
...century's key events: the rise to power of Mussolini and Hitler, the Chinese revolution of 1927, the Spanish Civil War, the London Blitz and the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. Charing at the shibboleth of objectivity, he adopted a personal, partisan, generally leftist tone, though his fervor cooled after the Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939. After the war he turned to biography, writing about Gandhi, Verdi, and his friends Sinclair Lewis and Dorothy Thompson. But his best work is his own Personal History (1935), a minor classic on his first years as a swashbuckling, trench-coated correspondent...
...fairly dead play. Tania does have moments of true vivacity, however, and these moments usually come--not surprisingly--when the cast is acting as a collective entity. When they sing "Que linda es Cuba" or chant "El pueblo--unido--jamas sera vencido" with what looks like genuine revolutionary fervor, they manage to capture some of the warm communal feeling that you might experience at a revolutionary summer camp, or, more likely, at a demonstration. But as this production of Tania proves, demonstrations are more fun to participate in than they are to watch...