Word: fervor
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...time had come for Arabs, with much bussing and holding of hands, to prove that they are all brothers-a ceremonial which involves increased fervor on the occasions when the sentiment is least true...
...greatest work among the Bridge group was one of them for only a year and a half: Emil Nolde, a grim north German, who came equipped with "tempests of color.'' Driven by what he called an "irresistible desire for a representation of the deepest spirituality, religion and fervor,'' Nolde turned to the Gospels, in his Christ Among the Children (see color page) created a new and powerful religious art that not only turns its back on the wrung-out humanism of the Renaissance but achieves in its glowing children and astonished disciples a thick religious fervor...
...aside by Britain during the last Commonwealth Conference in June. The British advised Nehru to try private capital, but private capital is showing itself understandably reluctant about investing in what appears to be a highly unpredictable economy. Besides, private investors are a little uncertain as to the extent and fervor of Indians socialist ambitions. Russia recently agreed to lend India $126 million, reportedly might cough up another $25 million, which would not be much help...
...some $2.5 billion. Half that total was made up of mere bookkeeping switches that Dwight Eisenhower was willing to accept, but he argued hard with congressional leaders to get back the other $1.2 billion that cut painfully into the Pentagon's 1958 spending plans. Last week, with economy fervor on Capitol Hill somewhat faded, the Senate undid most of the House's damage. The Senate Appropriations Committee voted out a $34.5 billion defense bill restoring $970 million -85%-of the real meat the House had chopped off. Prospect: passage by the full Senate this week, followed...
...friar delegates at Assisi could also look out to a growing network of more or less affiliated Franciscan groups, for no order has been more beset with sectarianism. Soon after St. Francis' death, his simplicity and fervor living on in his followers caused a profusion of Franciscan-rule sects and splinter groups-Spirituals, Moderates. Celestines, Observants, Intransigents. In 1517 the Conventuals were constituted a separate order; they permit their monasteries to hold property (most other Franciscan property is held and administered by the Holy See), and they wear black habits, shoes and birettas. The more ascetic Franciscans split from...