Word: fervorous
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...often guilty of stealing the show, ranging from jazz to filmscore to mood tunes, and always spiked with witty lyrics. The fourteen man orchestra does a laudable job of wrapping that music into a tight ball and tossing it out to an audience that lapped it up with fervor...
...hating is one of the South's cherished pastimes. Carville's epiphany was that if Democrats could portray the lottery as a tax-free way to improve education, government spending could once again become a winning issue. And the Republicans, hostage to the Christian right's antigambling fervor, would be painted into a corner...
...heart defect. Confronted with his mortality, Mahler was consoled by a new vision--immortality. His heart, his body and his memory would erode. His music, however, would not. Mahler was set to compose his legacy. His ink was his effigy; his fear of death was his muse. And the fervor that inspired him was not that of a composer, but of a missionary. In his final pieces, Mahler leads us through the landscape that is explored by a dying man--the denuded landscape of his own soul...
Living Harvard alumni talk more about the 1969 University Hall takeover and the anti-war fervor of the Vietnam era than about World Wars or Harvard's students who fought and died in Vietnam...
Boston in the fall is really a city upon the hill. But the religious fervor is not only limited to a renewed commitment to church-going. The religious ethos of Boston can be best felt outdoors. At Walden Pond, surrounded by basic natural elements--trees and water--you can imagine the epiphanies of Thoreau. Orchard House, home to Alcott family, Emerson House and The Fruitlands in Harvard, Mass., the religious communal farm of these New England thinkers and other transcendentalists, represent a quasi meeting of the minds, a convergence of the intellectual and the spiritual. The town of Salem...