Word: fervor
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...should be apparent that if these men are prevented from performing in this country, the far greater loss will be ours, not theirs; the cause of music in America will suffer more than the personal fortunes of these men . . . It is curious to observe with what seeming fervor some people insist on tilting with ideological windmills long after the cause in question is supposed to have been...
Charlie Castle worked his way through college, got on Broadway where critics called him "The Van Gogh of the American Stage" because he acted with a "kind of Christian fervor." Then Charlie went out to Hollywood where he became the biggest star in pictures. He marries a girl he loves, who loves him, and whom he admires because she's of the landed aristocracy...
...complicated rhythms (as in Anything Goes). He can match a pointedly off-color lyric with an insinuating tune (as in My Heart Belongs to Daddy). But the true Porter hallmark is cut in the bittersweet lament of What Is This Thing Called Love? and in the sultry, Latin fervor of Begin the Beguine, I've Got You Under My Skin, In the Still of the Night and Get Out of Town...
...plugged and pounded his way across the country-traveling 31,-500 miles, making 350 speeches, shouting out some 560,000 words. He had a kind of self-induced fervor which roused the admiring cry of "Pour it on, Harry!" from many an American voter. He had continued to fight right up to the last night. On election eve, while Tom Dewey piously urged everyone to get out and vote, Harry Truman had broken all the rules of proper election-eve conduct by urging the people to get out and vote for Democrats. His last words, which sounded to the experts...
...Clift, also understandable. But the outdoors doesn't lend itself to a convenient ending. Only the tragically abortive assistance of convention can reconcile the two men. In the last few minutes, "Red River" degenerates as a document of the West and winds up in a burst of horse-operatic fervor. Better see the main part again, partner, to get the bad taste out of your mouth...