Word: fervorous
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...economy and effect of such "classical" McCartney tunes as Eleanor Rigby and Yesterday, and you certainly can't dance to it. Indeed, the piece emerges as a curious cross between Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius and the Who's Quadrophenia, but it lacks either the former's ecstatic fervor or the latter's nose-in-the-dirt realism. One waits in vain for the real McCartney to loosen his tie and do something a little rude, but the composer seems overwhelmed by the cassocks and surplices. His vital rock roots remain very much a band...
...other hand, when fifth-grader Monette Rethford, in Norman, Okla., is told that she cannot get together with other students on school property to pray or read the Bible, it looks very much like a restriction of her freedom to worship. To publicize their own fervor, tens of thousands of students gathered around their school flagpoles to pray last Sept. 11. "I don't want a government church or a teacher opening class with prayer," says Jay Sekulow of Christian Advocates Serving Evangelism, a conservative organization specializing in church-state litigation. "But the First Amendment protects individual speech, even religious...
Although shoppers have been hitting the stores this Thanksgiving weekend with a holiday fervor, Harvard Square retailers said they are having a hard time being optimistic about how they will fare during this Christmas season...
...More than 40 children were rescued from death. If that were the end of the story, that would be enough. But we also rekindled some fresh fervor in the whole pro-life movement. And we put child killing back on the front page where it belongs...
...same kind of fervor that surrounded him as a priest followed him through his short but memorable candidacy in Haiti's first free and fair presidential elections. Aristide called his movement Lavalas, which in Creole means flood , or avalanche, and Haitians flooded around him in waves as he made visits to every corner of his country. Running against a former leader of the Duvaliers' repressive Tontons Macoutes and a handful of recidivist candidates, Aristide turned a lackluster election into a colorful political cockfight...