Word: fervor
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...Spain, an unprecedented wave of religious fervor swept a country in which life, year by year, gets harder. From Málaga to Zamora and from Murcia to Pamplona, thousands of black-robed, black-hooded men, carrying a cross in one hand, a torch in the other, formed endless Holy Week processions. Madrileños also pushed baby carriages loaded with infants, black bread, sausage and wine into the country for Easter picnics, saw the Castilian plateau in an almost forgotten dress. Since 1942 central Spain has been brown and barren with drought. Last week the plain was alive with...
...another: "I don't even know the melody." Nevertheless, when the curtain went down on Tosca, then up again on a gala pageant of recent Met history, every singer present seemed to roar it out like a native, and from the heart. There was good reason for their fervor: the pageant was the Met's farewell to pink-cheeked, white-haired General Manager Edward Johnson, who will retire when Manager-Designate Rudolf Bing takes over...
...emphasized that the idealistic revolutionary fervor characteristic of the Soviet Union in its early years has given way to an apathetic conforming to official indoctrination...
...Such impromptu declarations are not unusual at Wheaton, a little (1,500 students), nondenominational college which still bears the stamp of its strict fundamentalist heritage: no movies, smoking, card-playing, dancing or drinking, a 10 p.m. weekday curfew. But as the first students finished speaking, a surge of confessional fervor swept through the auditorium...
Last week, his blue eyes twinkling with enthusiasm and excitement, Pablo Casals was practicing with a new will and fervor. To honor the great Bach himself on the sooth anniversary of the composer's death, he had agreed to play in public just once more. Said he last week: "I am not coming out of retirement. I decided to play here this once, in spite of my retirement...