Word: fervor
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...Italy in the 5th century and is embellished with the usual subplots of revenge, lust and political hanky-panky. What makes the opera worth the salvaging is the vigor and sheer melodic beauty of the score. Though Verdi the patriot worked at odds with Verdi the composer, the fervor of his convictions could occasionally inspire him as well. The opening aria "Let us be free," for example, is charged with the kind of youthful brio that was to come to full flower in Rigoletto, written five years later. Fresh, forcefully direct, the Attila score was polished for six months...
...sheer and pervasive fervor, the love of nationhood has no equal among contemporary political passions. Independence is the fetish, fad and totem of the times. Everybody who can muster a quorum in a colony wants Freedom Now-and such is the temper of the age that they can usually have it. Roughly one-third of the world, some 1 billion people, have run up their own flags in the great dismantlement of empires since World War II, creating 60 new nations over the face of the earth. In the process they have also created, for themselves and for the world...
...Florid & Terrifying." Southern California devotees proclaim the alleged benefits of LSD with evangelistic fervor. They say it brings supernatural powers. It does not, say U.C.L.A. psychiatrists. Some say it is an aphrodisiac. It is not. They say it helps the user to solve his emotional problems. It may-but only if the solution is already in the mind, hidden behind an emotional block...
Speaking before an SRO audience in Jordan Hall, Senator Stephen M. Young (D-Ohio) attacked the war in Vietnam with all the fervor of an old-time political orator...
...illustrious University of Louvain, which did not offer so much as a single course in Flemish until 1932, is ten miles inside Flemish "territory." And with all the fervor of those who feel they have been snubbed for centuries, the Flemish have succeeded during the past few years in cutting the school into linguistic divisions just as rigid as the nation's-even to separate budgets for the next academic year...