Word: fervor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...century malaise, Lack of Communication. But if her fiction is wanting, her historiography is not. With painstaking care, she has woven each of the skeins of medieval life into a vivid tapestry that shows the loutishness and insensitivity of the baronial landholders, the obtuseness of the peasantry, the twisted fervor of churchmen who found virtue in the wholesale slaughter of heretics, and the disturbing contrast between the warmth of Jewish communal life and the demeaning nature of usury...
...doubt if any member of Tocsin consciously took stock of the situation and asked himself," Is it possible that Sen. Dirksen understands the Cuban situation better than I?" No, he simply didn't go to the next meeting. His fervor and sense of destiny were gone, even if his intellectual convictions remained the same...
...broadened. The extent of early welfare legislation is miniscule compared to present budgets, so here we were right. And it is within the power of today's student groups to be right in working for massive programs to combat disease, poverty, illness and insecurity. Our world needs the fervor, enthusiasm, and dedicated effort of which youth seems to be capable to work for good ends, not simply against a bomb which nobody wants but everyone feels they must have. Will Roberts
...British upper classes are smugly ignorant of life; the lower classes are self-taught fanatics and uncouth blackguards. As destiny's dutiful darling, G.B.S. slays these asses with his jawbone. Minus his customary wit, Shaw is a nagging scold. In a final soliloquy, delivered with fine evangelistic fervor by Robert Preston, the great iconoclast pitiably begs for an icon worthy of his worship...
They know that if the South is to rise again, it will not be with Confederate dollars. With a fervor which rivals Southern Baptism, they cultivate Northern investment. They are inordinately self-concious and are feverishly concerned about the "image of the South." Because ready capital has replaced the boll weevil as the South's most persistent problem, they are willing even to forsake sacred traditions to attract outside investment...