Word: fervor
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...triflingly tiny stage, and in a hall whose acoustics magnify sound with the fervor of a shower stall, a group from Harvard and Radcliffe is furnishing a first rate evening of Gilbert and Sullivan. With minor exceptions, the singing of both the principals and chorus is excellent, and even the less sparkling acting supplies in enthusiasm what it lacks in conviction...
...Sweden, gymnastics is a national pastime, embraced with evangelical fervor. Last week a 13-man group of muscular missionaries from Sweden, including the nation's entire eight-man Olympic team, reached the University of Illinois in the course of a 10,000-mile tour to carry the calisthenic word to the New World. The Swedes gave a packed house of 4,000 Illini an athletic eyeful. In turn, the Swedes were given a tumbling treat by U.S. Champion Dickie Browning that left them gasping...
...School professor, and George Layman Kittredge, equally well known professor of English, were the two glants of the Syndics, and they made sure that there was no nonsense about profit before (publishing) pleasure. Upon one occasion, when a book had achieved almost miraculous success and was selling with the fervor of a Maxwell Bodneheim epic, Moore stomped into a Syndics' meeting a little late. Physically a tremendous man with a booming voice, he slammed the table with a fist and reared, "Well, by God, it's just as I told You-we should never have accepted the book." Profits seemed...
None of this bothers Harry Grant, who talks about the Journal with the purple sweep of a Fourth of July orator and the fervor of an evangelist. Says he: "The Journal must be our Fair Lady. We must have freedom, freedom, freedom-not to be willful, or bigoted, or swell-headed, or to give us delusions of grandeur-but so that the Journal can act entirely as it thinks best for the community. The Journal is above our frailties. The Journal's job is to serve the public. It can't be anything else...
...make any machine in Milwaukee, but we have no first-class theater building or art museum or orchestra-and no real prospect of them." 'For its lack of the outward signs of culture, the Journal has to share the blame. If Harry Grant had resolutely exercised his evangelistic fervor a generation ago in favor of such cultural monuments, Milwaukee would probably have them. "It's very unusual for one man to have all the power I have," says he. "Men tolerate me because they know I don't want a thing for myself. I want...