Word: fervor
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...Ballerina Kaye created the part in 1942, and nobody else has ever danced it. Pillar of Fire (set to Schoenberg's Verklarte Nacht) established her as a unique dancing actress who brought new depth to ballet. Last week Ballerina Kaye danced the part with the same old tragic fervor. ¶ Pillar's British Choreographer Antony Tudor, 46, who was originally "curator" of the company's Modern English wing, was on hand last week to dance the part of Hagar's beloved. ¶ Lucia Chase, late-fortyish, Ballet Theater's longtime wealthy angel and firm guiding...
Governor William Stoughton was a jolly man. Presiding over the witch trials in Salem, he had only nineteen hanged, although another was pressed to death for refusing to testify. If Judge Stoughton was, perhaps, overzealous in his religion, at least his fervor overflowed into education, for he endowed Harvard with several scholarships, a pasture, and Stoughton Hall. In 1700, during Increase Mather's presidency, Stoughton "College" was built at right angles to the cast end of Harvard Hall. The second brick building in the Yard, it had three stories and an attic lighted by dormer windows...
...view of the significant and often delicate issues involved in the atomic field the non-political ideal is probably impossible to realize completely. Yet in the last year especially, the commission seems to have ignored this goal, plunging into polities with unmatched fervor. as a result of the controversies in which the agency has been engaged, Commissioners have become known by the polities they keep. Businessmen or scientists on the commission are popularly regarded as high-level lobbyists, and expected to uphold predetermined viewpoints on almost every issue...
After the 1917 Revolution, there was a fervor within Russian intellectual circles for a "new" literature which would express the revolutionary spirit and cast away the worn-out or "decadent" works of the past. One of the first groups which gained prominence was the Futurists. Spreading not only in literature but also in art, Futurism launched an attack on all bonds with the past. It attacked the vocabulary, as well as the long-standing customs of the people...
...Angeles, where the weather is observed with evangelical fervor and the fog comes on big tiger feet, the Air Pollution District Office last week announced some definitions...