Word: fervor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...photograph. While doing anthropological research in Timbuktu, French West Africa, I snapped my native cook perusing TIME (see cut). Part of his ancestry, and the mat on which he sits, are Tuareg; the rest is Songhoi Negro. He awaited the arrival of two-month-old TIME with as much fervor as we and would insist on having all of the pictures explained...
...that the alarmed British, afraid he might die in jail, transferred him to his luxurious home on Elgin Road in the European section of Calcutta, under guard of C. I. D. operatives. There he professedly abandoned his faith in European medical science, took up yoga exercises with such fervor that friends feared for his sanity...
These societies are dedicated to superpatriotism. In the name of the Emperor they rig politics, liquidate moderates, break ground for military adventures, serve the Army with intrigues, keep the national fervor burning. No one knows how big the societies are, though it has been said that Mitsuru Toyama could call upon any one of 10,000 youths to murder anyone but the Emperor, and the deed would be done. The societies meet in buildings which appear to be jujitsu halls, Shinto temples, homes, business offices...
...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...
...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...