Word: fervor
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...counter the softening of sentiment among his fellow exiles, Gutiarrez has also co-founded Puente, Spanish for "bridge," a group of Cuban professionals who aim to explain the older generation's anti-Castro fervor to younger Cuban Americans. He doesn't buy the claims by Menoyo and other dialogistas that they offer a centrist alternative to anti-Castro extremism. "What's a moderate?" asks Gutiarrez. "To say someone's a moderate because he'll talk to a brutal tyrant is a perversion of the label...
...contest is quickly shaping up as a race between a wounded Democratic incumbent and a Republican who is a two-time presidential loser of advancing years and whose record is scrambling to get in synch with the right-wing fervor of his party. Unhappiness with these options could yield a search for a new candidate...
Across the U.S., far from the convention's fervor, many N.R.A. members seem to shrug off the group's excesses as tactics that are excusable given the importance of the mission. "The N.R.A., whatever its faults, is still the best thing gun owners have," says Scott Carter, a 20-year member who manages a gun shop in Warrenton, Virginia. "Their past efforts and their future efforts to keep firearms in the hands of law-abiding citizens will do more to save this country than anything else." As for those members who feel that the N.R.A. has abandoned the interests...
Surely they could muster some of that fervor to save the game that is their livelihood...
...Revelations" is amazing. Its African-inspired movement is fluid and stunning, with the dancers forming shapes evocative of religious fervor, from prayer tableaux to crucifixion. The dancers move regally in gorgeous unison as the light bathes the stage, moving from sunlight to moonlight. The joy of the final church meeting segment is infectious, and carries through the ending curtain call. Tuesday's audience was wildly receptive and rightfuly...