Word: fervor
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...Argentine army is split, the navy is not. Aramburu hastily deployed 16 warships in the River Plate off Buenos Aires and La Plata. Insurrectionary fervor cooled off fast. At week's end Bengoa was under arrest, and the government announced, reassuringly, that the shakeup would not be made a pretext for postponing elections...
...burns with a passion for the Absolute, and the Hellenic "nothing in excess" is precisely the law she could not live by. Her grandeur, as well as her absurdity, it has been pointed out, is that she shares the apocalyptic vision of the Old Testament prophets with their incandescent fervor and their rare and terrible purity. Simone Weil embarrasses, as a saint embarrasses, by her childlike refusal to deviate from her personal vision of the pure, the good, and the godly, wherever they might lead. "It's a lucky thing for all of us," a friend once told...
...Negroes of Montgomery, Ala., the week dawned (as one of them put it) "darker than a thousand midnights." For more than eleven months, in a mass movement combining Christian fervor with Gandhi-like passive resistance, they had mounted and sustained in the "Cradle of the Confederacy" an almost total boycott of the city's segregated buses (TIME, April 2 ). Led by a handful of well-educated and young Negro leaders-notably by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., 27, pastor of a local Baptist church-they had efficiently put together and operated a car pool of some...
...about to die, exhorts his people with the words, "Your enemies shall come fawning to you, and you shall tread upon their high places," gives us only a lily-livered little liberal who orates vaguely about freedom; instead of God, only an off-screen voice; instead of religious fervor, only sentimentality...
...Light. The birthright of British artists, as their Manhattan showing makes clear, is a love of portraiture and landscape. In the 18th century, Hogarth not only set down with unerring eye the look of crowded London coffeehouses, but portrayed the dissolute Englishman of his day with a skill and fervor far beyond mere pamphleteering and caricature. The talent Gainsborough showed for catching the majesty of England's landscape became Britain's prime contribution to painting in the hands of his successors: John Constable, who lavished the same care on cloud formations that Italian Renaissance masters gave the nude...