Word: fervor
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...sudden chill. "Efficiently, almost coldly," she wrote, "President-elect Kennedy and his new team of intellectuals, investment bankers, management experts and bright young men are taking over their Washington assignments. But it is already clear that a fascinating and power-laden quality is sadly lacking-and that is personal fervor, with all that it means in warmth, excitement and flair . . . The art or trick of leadership is not just rational action, but articulation of it in ways that reach the public's heart as well as mind. Kennedy seems almost to have set for himself the Talleyrand motto...
...Toronto said that when he went to China in 1958 as president of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, he found Chinese science in a thriving state. The Communist regime is pouring money and effort into its scientific "leap ahead," and the participants are fired by nationalistic fervor, even though many of them may not like Communism as such. A sad contrast, said Wilson, is the low morale among scientists on Formosa, where the Chinese Nationalist government gives them small support or encouragement...
...final seconds; the next week New York won on the very same play. On another occasion, with his team trailing 38-7, a blizzard howling, and only 20 minutes left on the clock, Tripucka led Denver to four touchdowns and a 38-38 tie. Teams traded touchdowns with such fervor that one old-line N.F.L. fan cracked: "The team that wins the toss wins the game...
...best written, best edited, most successful-and most maddening. It is read round the world, has particular standing among Asian intellectuals, including India's Prime Minister Nehru, who is apt to agonize over the mildest New Statesman rebuke. In Britain, it is relished or reviled with equal fervor. Wrote Irish Author Sean O'Faolain: "It is the British bible of every washed-up Liberal, soured Conservative, lapsed Catholic, half-baked grammar-school intellectual, and every other unhappy misfit, pink and pacifist, whose sole prophylactic against despair, if not suicide, is a weekly injection of Kingsley Martin...
Rattling off memorized Portuguese phrases and well-remembered American hymns, an ebullient, white-haired apostle of Jesus last week exhorted Mormon converts in Brazil to "know in your hearts that Joseph Smith is the true prophet of God." The speaker's evangelical fervor poured forth naturally: he was Joseph Fielding Smith, 84, grandnephew of the founder, grandson of the prophet's martyred brother Hyrum, son of former Mormon President Joseph F. Smith, and himself senior member of the Council of the Twelve (the group of elders who are the spiritual and administrative leaders of the church). Traveling through...