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...devotion to the works of Richard Wagner is a worldwide cult, then a performance of The Ring of the Nibelung is that religion's ultimate rite: a fervent emotional and aesthetic observance. Any opera house that is able to produce the Ring cycle -- four long, mythic music dramas, based on old Norse and German sagas -- is assured of a sellout. Audiences travel across continents to submit themselves to the Ring's thrilling embrace. Among Wagner's many other theatrical gifts was his ability to build a climax at the end of every act, so that the audience is continually swept...
America's fervent flyers gather for a festival of small planes...
...former minister and fervent pro-lifer is the suspect in the shotgun murder of a Pensacola, Fla. abortion-clinic doctor and his volunteer security escort. Dr. John Bayard Britton, 69, was wearing a bullet-proof vest, but the gunman shot him in the head. The wife of the slain escort was injured. Paul Hill, who has in the past advocated violence as a biblically sanctioned means to stop abortion, has been arrested. Another Pensacola abortion-clinic physician was murdered in March, 1993. Spokespeople for and against abortion rights condemned today's slaying...
...incontrovertible. But the allegation that physicists who are still idols in the world scientific community cooperated with the espionage network? "Gumshoe braggadocio," fumes Richard Rhodes, author of a 1986 Pulitzer- prizewinning book on the making of the A-bomb. Edward Teller, father of the hydrogen bomb and a fervent anticommunist, scoffs at the idea that Fermi would ever have cooperated with the Soviets, because Fermi "clearly opposed the Stalinist nightmare...
Finally, tolerance gives right-wing extremists a degree of clout they don't deserve. If you've read most of the editorial positions produced by our campus media in the past year, you might notice that the most fervent claims of disenfranchisement and marginalization haven't come from the Radcliffe Union of Students, or from Harvard's gay, lesbian and bisexual community, or even from the various minority organizations, but from campus conservatives. Our own fixation on tolerance allows our Peninsuloid friends to demand that even their own intolerance be tolerated...