Word: fervorous
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Islam was always more than just a religion. In the time of the prophet, it heralded a new era of intellectual curiosity, encouraging Muslims to engage in political discourse. Outside of the mosque, Muslims debated issues with ideological fervor...
...casting of Onegin was designed to show off the Bolshoi's new crop of young singers. What is different about them? "Everything," says company spokesperson Svetlana Zavgorodnaya, with characteristically Russian fervor. "New emotions, new aesthetics, a new understanding of life!" Be that as it may, the young singers carry on the company's tradition of close ensemble performance. Vladimir Redkin as Onegin was an appropriately dashing cad. And in Nina Rautio, the Bolshoi presented a Tatiana who could be touchingly lyrical and also break a glass in the uppermost gallery. She carried her scenes triumphantly...
...curious and somewhat ironic commentary on high government that the designated roughnecks like Adams and Sununu often end up as victims of the terrible swift sword that they loved to wield so much. Adams by all accounts enjoyed laying about in righteous fervor in the name of national interest. And Sununu relished summoning the hapless Secretary of Education Lauro Cavazos to his office and giving him the heave-ho for the greater glory of Bush, who stayed away from the execution. Perhaps the power these men are given breeds in some ways the arrogance that leads them into trouble. There...
...bottom are homogenized, will the Delta lose its special fervor? Maybe. Maybe not. On the edge of Clarksdale, bluesman Johnson told of his days learning music from his sharecropper father. "Folks ain't so bad off now," he said. "It ain't as low down as it used to be. Blues ain't as sad." Then the Oil Man lifted his head and sang a few lines -- about the Persian Gulf...
...encouraged me to keep a low profile," she says, explaining how her mother fears American support for Israel and nationalist fervor. As Abu-Ghaida speaks, sipping a water at Au Bon Pain's outdoor cafe, a man approaches wearing an Operation Desert Storm t-shirt and hawking "Support the Troops" decals...