Word: fervor
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...Minneapolis. The hymns were all in Latin, as was the rest of the Mass. The offertory anthem was the 8th-century refrain, "Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat [Christ triumphs, Christ rules, Christ commands]." Nonetheless, the 350 delegates to the Fourth National Wanderer Forum sang out with a fervor rivaling that of any mod congregation. "That really felt like going to church, didn't it?" asked one rosary-fingering worshiper at the end of Mass. "Just like in the good old days, when we were Catholics...
Musically, Barlow and Heater displayed strength and sweetness without quite achieving the fervor and finesse of the best Wagnerians. They were supported only adequately by the Belgrade Philharmonic. But if the performance fell short of a complete artistic triumph, it clearly earned a special place among modern Wagner productions. It will be remembered as the one that put the tryst back in Tristan...
Despite his evangelical fervor, Lynd leaves a final impression of ambiguity, partly justifying the Yiddish proverb that Irving Howe recently directed at him: "He wants to dance at all the weddings." Lynd winces before the untender either-ors of history. He cannot settle flatly even on Viet Nam. "Were I in Viet Nam, I think I might be an anguished neutralist Buddhist some place," he has confessed to an interviewer...
...Cleveland often came by the house for jam sessions, whooping and clapping, singing and playing all through the night while Aretha watched intently from a corner. Once, at a funeral for an aunt of Aretha's, Clara Ward was singing the gospel tune Peace in the Valley; in her fervor, she tore off her hat and flung it on the ground. "That," says Aretha, "was when I wanted to become a singer." Aretha had the spirit, all right; after her first solo in church at the age of twelve, excited parishioners crowded around her father, saying, "Oh, that child...
Responding to strongly worded advice from President Robert W. Haack of the N.Y.S.E., several brokerage firms have begun taking direct action to cool the speculative fervor. E. F. Hutton & Co. announced that it will forbid its salesmen to solicit orders to buy stocks selling for less than $5 a share and will allow them no commission on such orders. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, the nation's largest securities concern, said it plans to increase restrictions on margin accounts...