Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pearls of the Crown (Serge Sandberg) behaves oddly by: 1) speaking in three languages, 2) popping up in unexpected places all over the face of the world, and 3) flitting back & forth over the last four centuries with the fervor of a flea at a dog show. More upstart than experiment, Pearls of the Crown is a capricious use of cinema's ample elbow room for the somersaulting imagination and talents of 53-year-old French Stagecrafter Sacha Guitry, who wrote its story, directed it and played four of its leading parts...
Particularly noteworthy will be the first performance of four motets by Leo Preger, written for the Glee Club and Choral Society. With severe lines and masterly syncopation Preger attains an effect of religious fervor that is to the extreme exciting...
...told in the personal, random style of a farmer's almanac. Animal husbandry alternates with tributes to his wife; poetic fervor ("you want to sing, dance, yell, get drunk, and pray") is mixed with the technique of shearing; observations on the sexual prowess of rams with gossip about his neighbors; market conditions with a description of bathing with his wife in washtubs ("one felt it as something out of Daumier or Cruikshank, of Degas or Rembrandt"); dissertations on the weather with proposed reforms for farmers' dress (kilts and beard...
...Composer Bloch fervor has always been instinctive. When he was a youngster running about the shop of his clock merchant father in Geneva, he made a vow that he would become a composer. Unlike most little boys, who would have made the vow and let it go at that, Bloch wrote it out on a scrap of paper, buried it under a mound of stones, built a fire over it, and mumbled incantations while he watched the burning embers...
...Forty Days of Musa Dagh, Franz Werfel wrote a novel that was at once an account of an extraordinary military operation, a story of a successful resistance to tyranny, a tribute to simple religious fervor. Containing more heavily mystical passages than most best-sellers (total sales 158,000 copies), it made up for them with excellent descriptions of well-planned, hard-fought, hand-to-hand battles. Moreover, it had the inherent excitement of a struggle in which a hopelessly outnumbered force decides to fight, turns on its enemy and wins...