Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fallen before the Prophet's sword? In The Call of the Minaret (Oxford University Press; $6.25), published last fortnight, Anglican priest and Moslem scholar Kenneth Cragg blames not Moslem power but Christian failure for the rise of Islam. "It was a failure in love, in purity, and in fervor, a failure of the spirit," he argues. "Islam developed in an environment of imperfect Christianity...
...Martin's Press: $3). Hulking British Schoolmaster Thomas Ashe was a flop as a ladies' man, and knew it. His nose was bulbous, his mustache like a thicket, and his eyes were crossed. But when he is crowding 49, they suddenly blaze with fresh fervor at the sight of an 18-year-old ballerina named Shala Delisle. He sees in her "the meaning and import of my life, my un-climbed peak, my terra incognita, my uncharted sea, my route to the Blessed Isles." Ignited with a Galahad-pure flame of romance. Ashe chucks everything to pursue...
...They must rely on their voices and Shaw's lines to project the matter of the play, rather than on movement or color or the suspense of a tight plot. Laughton handles his role most satisfactorily. Sometimes relaxed into an engaging slouch, he yet rouses himself to an oratorical fervor of Churchillian stature that all but sweeps away his opponents, including the audience. Glynis Johns' characterization of Major Barbara is much less successful. She possesses an interesting voice--a sort of throaty croak--but the playwright's subtle speech rhythms prove too difficult for her to handle, and her performance...
...Chills & Fervor. Before broaching his scheme to the British public last week, Macmillan was careful to talk it over with the Commonwealth Finance'Ministers. The reception he got was, he said, "sympathetic, friendly and amicable...
...into a triumph for the moderate Gaitskell. After ten months of leadership (the leader chosen by the party's 277 M.P.s), Gaitskell faced the whole party for the first time. The delegates were cool toward him in the beginning, but warmed to the speech, delivered with confidence and fervor, with which Gaitskell wound up a later debate. The cheers kept on until Gaitskell rose and took a bow-a tribute almost never tendered at Laborite conventions. Raising a hand, and with shining face and vibrant voice, he cried: "Thank you, comrades, we take that as a pledge between...