Word: fervorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...complicated rhythms (as in Anything Goes). He can match a pointedly off-color lyric with an insinuating tune (as in My Heart Belongs to Daddy). But the true Porter hallmark is cut in the bittersweet lament of What Is This Thing Called Love? and in the sultry, Latin fervor of Begin the Beguine, I've Got You Under My Skin, In the Still of the Night and Get Out of Town...
...plugged and pounded his way across the country-traveling 31,-500 miles, making 350 speeches, shouting out some 560,000 words. He had a kind of self-induced fervor which roused the admiring cry of "Pour it on, Harry!" from many an American voter. He had continued to fight right up to the last night. On election eve, while Tom Dewey piously urged everyone to get out and vote, Harry Truman had broken all the rules of proper election-eve conduct by urging the people to get out and vote for Democrats. His last words, which sounded to the experts...
...Clift, also understandable. But the outdoors doesn't lend itself to a convenient ending. Only the tragically abortive assistance of convention can reconcile the two men. In the last few minutes, "Red River" degenerates as a document of the West and winds up in a burst of horse-operatic fervor. Better see the main part again, partner, to get the bad taste out of your mouth...
Further outbreaks of political fervor led the CRIMSON and the Student Council to ask for decorum in the 1904 and 1908 demonstration for favorite son Teddy Roosevelt '80 and W. H. Taft. Ralliers left their feet in 1912, however, and piled into flivvers for the first "flying" rallies--all for the Progressive Party and T. R. But T. R.'s Harvard chances were damaged by President Eliot's declaration for Woodrow Wilson, who wound up with 735 College votes, compared to 475 for T. R. and 365 for Taft...
Science, like Communism, requires a kind of religious fervor of its practitioners. Scientists assume that they have the right to judge the truth on the basis of experiment, observation and reasoning. They regard any dogmatic authority as a deadly enemy...