Word: fervor
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...right now it is a weak flank. This presents the U. S. with a paradoxical problem. Canada, which over a year ago declared war on the dictators, is now, because of her weakness, a cause of concern to her neighbor to the South, a nation whose war preparations and fervor eclipse her own, and yet a peaceful nation, dedicated to preventing further spread...
...need to hear all these voices so warm, so confident, so familiar. English friends, Frenchmen in England or in the United States, speak to us, keep on speaking to us; we listen with fervor, often with the greatest emotion. Our confidence, our hope in you is enormous. No, France will not die. Help...
...late German Economist Max] Weber that capitalism is a rather natural outgrowth of Protestantism; arid I would go farther in saying that socialism, communism and fascism are in turn rather natural developments from capitalism. Spiritually, they are all much alike. Capitalism . . . today commands a material type of religious fervor ... as unreasonable, dogmatic, and theoretical as any long established theology...
...danger today is that patriotic fervor seeking a release in action may lead us to pay a disastrously and unnecessarily high price. Today we are asked to aid England with supplies, and that is right. Tomorrow the German attack may shift to the outposts of Britain's Empire, and many will feel that the time has come to send men and ships. But it is there that we must steel ourselves to say no. If lives are to be lost in defense of our nation, we must not meet the enemy on his own terms and send...
Several stories are dark with proletarian mysticism; several sustain their fervor with uncommon grace. Meridel Le Sueur has seen a few things around Kansas and Illinois that nobody else has put down; she puts them down hard...