Word: fervid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...delegates-from an Anglican archbishop to fervid Pentecostalists-had come to Minneapolis expecting something else. The six-day congress had originally been planned as a grass-roots session on evangelism, a follow-up to the more intellectual World Congress on Evangelism held in Berlin in 1966. But in his welcome, Honorary Chairman Billy Graham promised that the meeting "will affect every religious group in the country in the next decade." Keynoter Oswald C. J. Hoffmann (see box) continued the warmup, warning the delegates: "If the Gospel is demonstrated only vocally and not vitally in the everyday actions of Christ...
Black writers telling it like it is have found no substitute for straight-out autobiography. No novel by James Baldwin can match the fervid personal essays in his The Fire Next Time. What black fiction can begin to compare with The Autobiography of Malcolm X or even Claude Brown's somewhat overrated Manchild in the Promised Land? The fire a black autobiographer kindles burns the reader. The fire a black novelist sets has a way of burning himself -blowing his cool, singeing his prose style and casting clouds of smoke over his intentions...
Plenty of hard compromises had to be made on the Maverick. Anything that added to style, size or performance raised the list price. In the fervid debates among Ford's engineers, stylists and cost accountants, lacocca was the final arbiter. The accountants wanted plain gray upholstery; lacocca ordered bright plaids, though the decision increased the price of each car by several dollars. He ordered the body made wide enough so that six passengers could squeeze in in a pinch. "I could have taken a slice down the middle of that car, maybe three inches, still gotten four people...
Grand dreams of European unity have dimmed in recent years, buffeted by resurgent nationalism. "Integration is like a bicycle," says Walter Hallstein, the former president of the European Economic Community and one of the fervid dreamers. "You either move on or you fall off." Giovanni Agnelli, chairman of Fiat, describes the present arrangement of economic partnership without political integration in lustier Italian metaphor. "There is not yet a united Europe. As law scholars would say, the marriage among European countries was not consummated...
...packed all he knows about the peak of swing (1935-46) into an encyclopedic volume, The Big Bands (Macmillan; $9.95). Like the zealots of whom and to whom it speaks, the book is cheerfully biased, sometimes repetitive, often superficial-and just as often stirringly evocative of the fervid period when so many groups (Simon mentions some 450) "swung freely and joyously," filling listeners with "an exhilarated sense of friendly well-being...