Word: fervor
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...main supporters of Communism in this country have a large percentage of young gentlemen whose parents have substantial properties. There is in human nature an element that is drawn by the spirit of adventure, the lure of sacrifice and the attraction of secrecy. [The Communists] have replaced the fervor of old-fashioned religion with the fervor of their new creed...
...eagerness to read everything, from the hearts of celery to the mind of God, as well as in the gingerbread elaborations of his style, Author Blackwood is more a Victorian than a modern. Yet, far more than most Victorians, Blackwood has a fervor for the inhuman, subhuman, or superhuman, and a distaste for the world of men. The story in which Black wood expresses his keenest distaste for actual life is perhaps his most carefully composed one, The Lost Valley. Twin brothers, who have lived only for each other for 35 years, find themselves in love with the same woman...
...Disappearance has as many flaws as a pot-holed road, as many undigested scraps of thought as a Quiz Kids' program. But even the grotesqueness of the fantasy, and the gaps and snags, do not seriously detract from the book's underlying warmth of heart and crusading fervor. With the aid of a monstrous trick, Author Wylie again lays a stubby forefinger on his favorite theme-the relation of the sexes-and succeeds, at last, in discussing the matter in what, for him at least, is a grave and low-pitched tone of voice...
Willie has no explanation for his success. But Will Molter, last season's leading West Coast trainer who uses Willie's services whenever they are available, explains it with exhaustive fervor: "Willie's great. He doesn't try to knock the spirit out of a horse; any horse he rides can be raced again in a couple of days-and that's unusual. Willie's a great judge of pace. He doesn't whip the horse right out of the stall like Longden, but gets the feel of the horse in the first...
...Their surest reward will be a fine performance by Actor Ferrer, who gets uniformly good support from Mala Powers, a pretty Roxane. William Prince does well as the tongue-tied Christian, and Ralph Clanton as the haughty Comte de Guiche. Ferrer gives his role its full measure of lovelorn fervor, comic flair and wry pathos. Wearing the white plume with grand-mannered dash and strut, he also displays the kind of swordsmanship that ought to charm the popcorn set into listening to the poetry...