Word: fervor
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Several of the performances are first-rate. Canada Lee plays with dignity and fervor one of the few thoroughly unpatronizing screen roles ever given a Negro. Lilli Palmer is a sensitive and lovely actress. John Garfield, having dropped some of his Dead End mannerisms, gives a good performance that is as hard and simple as a rock...
...each day, the Archbishop of Moscow forbade, for hygienic reasons, the kissing of icons; an outraged mob killed him. When in 1812 Napoleon marched on the city, the Governor General of Moscow issued a communiqué to the people which was a typical mixture of civic concern and religious fervor: "Thank God! All is well in Moscow. . . . Bread prices have not risen and meat prices have gone down. . . . Our protectors are, before the Lord His Holy Mother and all the saints who rest in Moscow...
...crusade swung into its third week, the antitrust division had lost none of its fervor but some of its bounce. It brought action against the National Association of Real Estate Boards and its local Washington chapter, charged them with fixing brokerage fees and thereby contributing to the high cost of houses. But the charge did not carry any threat of jail sentences...
...attributing of sensual or spiritual qualities to music itself is an arbitrary thing indeed. Since extreme religiosity is a diversion of sensuality, it seems not unsuitable that so-called sensuous music be used as a means of stimulating religious fervor. But music itself has no real erotic influence on human beings other than that created by association...
Jinnah could not stop the centrifugal spin even if he wanted to. His Moslem followers had been whipped into an irreversible crusade for Pakistan. Their motives ran all the way from deep religious fervor to that of one Moslem politician who said: "In Hindustan I would be nothing, but in Pakistan I could be Secretary of State...