Word: fervor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...band undeniably impressed the masses with its raw street-rock energy and perspective. As Green Day resurrected the three-chord pop-punk love song and the Offspring was the frat-rock party essential, Rancid took '90s mainstream punk one step further with the group's grounded attitude and boundless fervor. The music, the ideology, the rise from destitute wanderer to successful, accessible rock star: Rancid embodied the same American dream that it had been criticizing for years...
...saying it again now: I really love soccer. Football. Whatever. And it's not just the funny way they keep the time, or the fact that the first round alone is producing more ties than Father's Day. No, it's more than that. It's the nationalism, the fervor, the spectacle. The excessive drinking. The guys with one name. The Nike commercials...
There was a fervor of excitement surrounding this year's Harvard men's basketball team, and indeed surrounding the Ivy League in general, that made the season a great time to be a Harvard basketball...
...There was a kind of social fervor about integrating the Houses," he says, although House life was not very dynamic...
Dedicating both funds and fervor toinvigorating student life, undergraduates plungedback into College life...