Word: fervor
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...greatest master of the liberating freshness of technical discipline since Bach. His pellucid textures are never subjected to the spoilage of superfluity but rather to an intensely self-conscious merging of the intoxication of original inspiration with master-craftsmanship. The Octet reflects this Master's modality of intellectual fervor and artistic vigilance. In its investigation of sonata form it also reflects his consciousness of the equal need for innovation and universality, by the light of living tradition. The Ensemble under the direction of conductor James Walker played absolutely splendidly, especially in the variation movement...
...note of the legitimate concerns even of those whose point of view one rejects. For instance, while I find little justification for the present ROTC program, I recognize the right of students to pursue military preparation as one extra-curricular activity among others: and while I recognize the moral fervor of those who want, because of Vietnam, to expel ROTC altogether, I find the connection between ROTC, America's armed forces and Vietnam far more complex than that between Dow, napalm and Vietnam; and I do find the parallel between moral opposition to Nazism and moral opposition to ROTC...
...history into a dogma, and convince themselves that their identification with the oppressed and the damned of the earth makes of them an equally oppressed group, entitled there fore to the tactics of despair. We cannot allow them either to believe that they have a monopoly on moral fervor and political ardor, or to think that their aims (many of which I share) justify their antics...
...Germany. Nothing so underscored France's reduced position as the cancellation of next year's nuclear tests in the Pacific, in which France was expected to explode its first missile-sized H-bomb. Doubtless the general will continue to talk of grandeur and gloire with his familiar fervor, but until the soundness of the franc is restored, the old perorations must necessarily have a hollow ring...
...beginning, the lab's 96 staffers were infused with a save-the-world fervor. "PBL," promised a national ad campaign, "will use television as it's never been used before." But 25 Sunday-night telecasts later, PBL Executive Director Av Westin confessed despondently: "We took some deserved lumps for our brash we'll-show-you attitude. The year had its successes and failures, but it was not totally satisfactory from anybody's point of view...