Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...known for a long time I'm not loved with all the fervor I think I'm entitled to. If a man worked hard at it, he couldn't get up a bigger list of enemies than I. I have accumulated a choice collection of critics and enemies, especially among certain rings of contractors, public utility interests and oil interests. I also understand I am under the serious criticism of not being polite. I have had to say 'no' very frequently. I have been asked to make appointments and approve projects which I could...
Laymen for whom Stravinsky's music holds an almost pagan quality are surprised to hear that he is ardently religious, says his prayers and goes regularly to the Russian Orthodox Church. But even with his faith and fervor Stravinsky has remained a rabid hypochondriac, always worrying over his own and everyone else's health. His nervous hope last week was that U. S. audiences would be more understanding than the customs officer who picked a package of wordless scores from his luggage and asked him in what language he had written them...
...Flirtation Walk (Warner). That patriotic fervor is an emotion only a shade less potent at the box office than mother love and Christian piety is a premise which the cinema has demonstrated periodically from The Birth of a Nation to The President Vanishes. Warner Brothers were quick to perceive that flag-waving is as well suited to light musicomedy as to serious drama. Flirtation Walk, made with "the full co-operation of the U. S. Army." is an animated advertisement for West Point, Schofield Barracks in Hawaii, and military discipline in general. In it, Dick Powell is the impudent private...
Joseph Banks Rhine, 39, started his career in science as a hard-headed plant physiologist. Later he abandoned biology for psychology. He believed that knowledge of psychic phenomena had been impeded on one hand by emotional fervor and on the other by unreasonable skepticism. He knew that to most scientists the very words telepathy and clairvoyance smacked of vaudeville hood-winkery and fat. dark women. But if telepathy and clairvoyance existed, he reasoned, they should be accessible to scientific approach. He went to Duke's Professor McDougall, got a post at the university and facilities for research...
...well-informed circles the Conservative Party, seeing its "National Government" majority menaced by Labor's landslide gains in municipal elections (TIME, Nov. 12), was reported to have settled on the following strategy: Between now and the Royal Jubilee next spring when patriotic fervor will be at its height, the Government will work up an impressive war scare and spring a general election just after the Jubilee, on the well-tested theory that "the British public, when frightened, always votes Conservative...