Word: fervor
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...heart defect. Confronted with his mortality, Mahler was consoled by a new vision--immortality. His heart, his body and his memory would erode. His music, however, would not. Mahler was set to compose his legacy. His ink was his effigy; his fear of death was his muse. And the fervor that inspired him was not that of a composer, but of a missionary. In his final pieces, Mahler leads us through the landscape that is explored by a dying man--the denuded landscape of his own soul...
Living Harvard alumni talk more about the 1969 University Hall takeover and the anti-war fervor of the Vietnam era than about World Wars or Harvard's students who fought and died in Vietnam...
Boston in the fall is really a city upon the hill. But the religious fervor is not only limited to a renewed commitment to church-going. The religious ethos of Boston can be best felt outdoors. At Walden Pond, surrounded by basic natural elements--trees and water--you can imagine the epiphanies of Thoreau. Orchard House, home to Alcott family, Emerson House and The Fruitlands in Harvard, Mass., the religious communal farm of these New England thinkers and other transcendentalists, represent a quasi meeting of the minds, a convergence of the intellectual and the spiritual. The town of Salem...
...Stewart may not be anybody's idea of the first or last word in comedy today, but Naked Pictures of Famous People certainly gives out hope for the future of comedians-turned-writers. With brilliant fervor, nonstop wit and the decorum of the average skateboard fanatic, Stewart rips into the good, the bad and the better-left-unsaid. Not all of the stories come out as winners, but those that do are certainly worth discovering, and those that aren't should at least be given a chance. In addition to the Martha Stewart shenanigans, another particularly revealing section...
...sports garner the same sort of respect. In nearly every country, soccer ignites an almost religious fervor and ecstasy, while in America, football, baseball and basketball are currently the sports of choice. But perhaps futbol is already taking hold here, in the form of Nintendo 64's FIFA World Cup Soccer, a two player game whose adherents devote as much time and energy to FIFA as many varsity athletes do to their own sports...