Word: fervor
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...Calkins spoke to the young both from the pulpit and the podium. He was impressive not for any evangelistic fervor, but for his high cultivation, his keen tongue, and the obvious personal interest he took in everyone he knew. Those he addressed as youths carried with the mas men, his spiritual and deeply learned insights...
...were pleased, some were piqued or puzzled, few were bored. In fact, last week when the Hamburgers also presented the first American performance of Gunther Schuller's Kafka-inspired, twelve-tone opera The Visitation (TIME, Oct. 21), a minority of listeners leaped to their feet with truly Italian fervor to boo, hiss and shout "Fraud!", while a noisy majority clapped and cheered...
...more protracted. After years of futile, ruinous enmity toward Israel, the Arabs conceivably might decide that their best hope for the future lies in neighborly relations between the heirs of Isaac and Ishmael. More probably, envenomed by their latest defeat, they could embark on a new orgy of irredentist fervor, thereby proving once more, as Radio Algiers put it last week, that "the only language between Israel and the Arabs is the language of iron and fire...
...evangelical fervor that Richards can bring to even a bowl of cereal comes naturally enough, since he is an ordained Church of the Brethren minister. He neither smokes nor drinks, and his favorite expletive is "Smoly Hoke!" Their emphasis being on clean living, the TV commercials he makes for Wheaties are in perfect character. So are the 80-odd speeches that Richards delivers on the banquet circuit each year, appearances liberally laced with a can-do gospel that is equal parts Norman Vincent Peale and Knute Rockne...
These stories, probably apocryphal, and the girls' fervor testify to the virulence of feelings on both sides before and during the strike. (One dean, still unidentified, is said to have called the strikers "stupid little girls" in conversation with another student.) That emotions could become so heated over an issue as trivial as apartment living makes a farce of all the mechanisms that are supposed to settle conflict at Radcliffe. Mrs. Bunting was pulled into the controversy almost immediately; her underlings, in the residence and deans' office, were unable to head off the conflict with the disgruntled girls...