Word: fervorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...everything in common except a name; they all worshiped Picasso's flat abstractions and muscular distortions of reality, and the clear, hot & cold colors of Matisse. Tracked down to their neat, freezing studios, they proved to share something more-a surprising lack of Left Bank bohemianism, and a fervor in the cause of modern art. Their fervor was that of disciples; Parisians, assessing their evident talent, anxiously waited for them to strike out on their own before handing over the keys of the city to them...
Some stages in history seem to resemble periods in the lives of individuals. As an individual is Born, grows and dies, so do societies undergo a similar cycle of birth, florescence and decay. And, like different individuals, different societies are charged with varying amounts of enthusiasm, moral fervor, faith in progress and the ultimate rightness of things --a conglomerate of moral values commonly designated by the inexact term, "idealism...
...believed in thrift, personal integrity, personal independence and the necessity of toil; he abhorred with equal fervor, tobacco, alcohol and ostentation. His favorite dishes were tripe and pig's feet. Although he was an officer of 43 companies and corporations, he shared a small, low-ceilinged office in Boston's museum-like State Street Trust Co. with his secretary (who comes from Illinois). He contemplated buying a new hat as reluctantly as he would have considered selling the house he had built in Concord...
...time works against us in the laboratories, where science is beating out some wonderful refinements on military arts which we thought were pretty well advanced a year ago. Now is the time to sense the danger, to leap to "the crystal walls," and to defend them with intelligence and fervor...
...Double Game. With exemplary skill, Communist propagandists in Austria played on every Austrian fear and vexation, made the most of every Allied slip. The Communist press rang with patriotic fervor and anti-Gruber denunciations over the Tyrol question. No mention was made of the fact that Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov had consistently opposed Austria's demands for South Tyrol...