Word: fervor
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...damn thing to try to nurture,/ Brothers and sisters in the revolution./ Baptist teachers dying is the only solution./ Passiveness causes others to pass us by." The group goes further on Give a Man a Fish, a tune whose chorus rings with down-home gospel fervor. "Brothers wit their A.K.s and their 9-mms," Speech raps, "Need to learn how to correctly shoot them./ Save those rounds for a revolution./ Poor whites and blacks, bumrushing the system." Whether literally calling for violence or using a metaphor to express a desire for social upheaval, Speech and Arrested Development clearly believe their...
...York Governor Mario Cuomo has also had his past differences with Clinton, causing some to worry that his nominating speech might lack his customary fervor. But the Delphic orator brought all his skills from Albany to Manhattan. His voice full of fury one minute and forgiveness the next, he called out Clinton's name no fewer than 30 times. He evoked the image of a national parade celebrating a victory over problems at home more joyous than the one that followed the gulf war. "So step aside, Mr. Bush!" Cuomo shouted. "You've had your parade...
...year of vicious ethnic bloodletting has ensued. Now most of the world has decided that the prime cause of the fighting is the nationalist fervor of Serbia. Yes, the war is a more complicated eruption of ancient religious, ethnic and territorial hatreds, but it is Serbia's determination to bite off parts of the other republics peopled by Serbs that keeps the war going. And the U.S., the 12-nation European Community, the 52-nation Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (C.S.C.E.) and the United Nations have let it roll on unchecked while dithering helplessly about what, if anything...
After 60 students were selected from applications and the class moved into more intimate setting, the Lee fervor died down somewhat. Now, Afro-Am is negotiating for Lee to return to the department in the fall--this time for a smaller seminar on Afro-American film, or possibly on scriptwriting...
...LAST BUSINESS titan -- devoid of electoral experience but rich in patriotic fervor -- to try to bankroll his way into the White House as a high- minded alternative to an unpopular President and the usual band of two- faced out-of-power politicians. In the Frank Capra classic, Tracy falls under the thumb of a cabal of back-room bosses before reclaiming his virtue in a dramatic radio address, in which he confesses, "I sold out my ideals to a gang of corrupt politicians...