Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Word of Advice. A team of five English-speaking students of Barth promptly rallied to defend their master. His silence during the Soviet suppression of Hungary, they said, was to avoid pouring fuel on the blaze of "crusading fervor" that flared up in Switzerland at the time. And why, they ask, should Barth have "to speak to every significant event"? They deny that Barth rejects all political principle-pointing out that he told the Hungarians it was not permissible to join the Communist Party merely to keep...
...then state of the art, so we sort of put it on the back burner." But interest in missiles was picking up, and one of the reasons was Schriever's visionary enthusiasm. Everywhere he debated and discoursed upon the values and virtues of missiles, missiles, missiles with such fervor that, according to one friendly scientist, "they thought Ben was insane...
...numbers after intermission were as well received as their predecessors. Kodaly's Te Deum Laudamus, a massive composition demanding endurance as well as musicianship, was presented with the fervor it requires. Soloists Margaret Lapsley, Marcia Heintzelman, Franklin van Halsema, and Thomas Beveridge were impressive in both vocal quality and understanding interpretation. A brilliant accompaniment was supplied by pianists Jonathan Thackeray and Bernard Kreger. In equally excellent accompaniment by a brass choir from the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra highlighted the performance of Jubilate Deo, a robust sacred work by the 16th Century Venetian master Giovanni Gabrieli. The choice of this concluding work...
Winthrop's members almost without exception enjoy their House. Whether because ninety per cent of its members chose Winthrop as their first preference, or because the hot-bed fervor so prominent in some other houses is never consciously promoted in Winthrop, dissatisfaction is virtually unknown...
...telling the doleful tale of the Drones, Keats examines many aspects of the new phenomena of these sprawling subdivisions. He finds little that is cheery. In a patriotic fervor, the country endorsed the idea that every veteran was entitled to own his home, and the resulting pieces of Federal legislation created an ideal opportunity for unscrupulous builders. Lured on by "no money down" advertising, married veterans proceeded to burden themselves with jerry-built houses and crushing mortgages, the wheels of credit began to grind, and the John and Mary Drones of America were trapped...