Word: fervor
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Absent too, however, was the exhilaration and fervor of engaging, competitive, intercollegiate basketball. Although this "low-profile" program may well have been constructive and rewarding to the players themselves, it was hardly meaningful to the school or the community, and it was exciting to absolutely no one. Harvard was simply not attracting those amply qualified students who were also blue-chippers on the basketball court. Nor was it attempting...
...time. Not only do the tenants stalk her and spook her, but her passion for a rather creepy photographer risks more than simple heartbreak. The movie is rather delirious camp, wonderfully photographed by Andrew Davis and directed by Paul Bartel with the fervor of a carny barker at a freak show...
...exacting as well as those for whom it is not exacting enough. Neither can we trust in revolutionary insensitivity. Suffering is real even if it comes in a progressive cause. Nixon's correspondent is deceived. Her son would be no less dead if his death had a meaning. Neither fervor nor ideology can restore life...
Aside from lovers and husbands, the only visitor to the house is the minister who comes to pray at Agnes's deathbed. Bergman admires the minister's recognition of the need for moral faith, and his sincerity and fervor; but his unfolding of a stern Calvinist credo becomes pathetic, particularly as he begins to cry, and tells the sisters that Agnes's faith was stronger than his own. When he leaves with his androgynous layers-out, we are made sharply aware that, for all its period trappings, this is a story about Western man caught in a post-Christian world...
...ambitious Sullivan has sometimes been accused of "sleight-of-mouth" tricks-of changing his views to suit the policy of the moment. The reason is that he frequently argues his own views with passion but, when overruled, feels obligated to argue the official view with equal fervor. As ambassador, he pleaded eloquently against any allied invasion of Laos; back in Washington in early 1971, he argued the case for the South Vietnamese invasion of Laos. Once, when he had stated a point with great conviction, he was reminded by a reporter that he had argued the exact opposite with equal...