Word: fervid
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...routine protest against the separation of church and state. But in Poland, where approximately 90% of the population is Roman Catholic, and the church is the only institution powerful enough to challenge the state, a battle over crucifixes in the classroom last week sparked one of the most fervid spontaneous demonstrations since martial law was lifted last July...
Oswald Spengler, who liked to think that the twilight of Western civilization will be marked not by true religion, but by an upsurge of fervid religiosity. Jesus Christ Superstar, the rock opera that is rocking Broadway's new season, is show biz with a twist: Director Tom O'Horgan, who was influenced by Olsen & Johnson, has made it into a sort of Heavenzapoppin...
...displaying the standard repertory: works such as La Traviata, Tosca and Die Meistersinger. But an opera house must also be active in reviving worthy pieces and commissioning new ones. Under Levine's artistic administration, the Met has successfully explored new territory in such operas as Poulenc's fervid Dialogues of the Carmelites, Berg's thorny Lulu, Kurt Weill's sardonic Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny and the ebullient French triple bill Parade. In standard works, such as Verdi's Don Carlo and Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, the company has used...
...Gloria Vanderbilt was none too pleased with Little Gloria . . . Happy at Last, a version of Barbara Goldsmith's book about the Vanderbilt custody trial shown on NBC last week. But what recourse do the famous have when their lives are tricked out in a scriptwriter's overly fervid imaginings? Elizabeth Taylor has decided to find...
...time passed, the cycles of fury and sanity related to Lowell's development as a poet. Something of the fervid excitement of the early poems disappeared forever. He welcomed middle age as if it were synonymous with sanity. Settling down in Boston, he became an Episcopalian again. In 1957 he fathered a daughter, Harriet, by Hardwick...