Word: fervor
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With the same memorializing fervor that seized the U.S. after John Kennedy's death, the French are busy inscribing the late Charles de Gaulle's name on squares and avenues in hundreds of towns throughout the country. One rechristening has created a national furor: the Paris municipal council's unanimous but hasty decision last week to change the Place de 1'Etoile to Place Charles de Gaulle. Judging from newspaper editorials and talk in the bistros, vast numbers of Frenchmen seemed to feel that the famous site of the Arc de Triomphe and the Tomb...
Hear Me Lord, the concluding song, is an old-fashioned religious confessional. Harrison belts it out with affirmative rock fervor, and punctuates it with quick but brilliant changes of pace-Harrison's trademark as a composer-which sound like someone briefly opening a door into a gospel-shouting session...
Myth, much of it, the creation of patriotic 19th century romantics. Yet the coming of the Pilgrims is being celebrated this year with particular fervor, for 1970 marks the 350th anniversary of their landing on Nov. 21, 1620, at what is now Provincetown, Mass., and their final settlement at Plymouth a month later. The celebration will continue until November 1971-the 350th anniversary of the First Thanksgiving -and it is richly deserved, because the Pilgrims were more fascinating in fact than they ever were in fiction...
...strange as it seems, Coop officials as recently as this spring seriously considered taking over the financially-troubled Northeastern and B.U. bookstores. With naive- almost missionary- fervor they believed that the Coop could simply administer a dosage of its superb management and retailing techniques to the blighted bookstores and all would be better...
...Galileo, whose unwitting crime was that he left man out of his reckoning. Preoccupied with the orderly behavior of the planets in the heavens, Galileo, and the scientists who followed him, says Mumford, assumed that life on earth could be reduced to neat, predictable patterns. With his customary prophetic fervor, Mumford accuses Galileo of "driving man out of living nature into a cosmic desert even more peremptorily than Jehovah drove Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden...