Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Council had raised enough money to construct an educational FM station, scattered through Symphony Hall. In this dissected state, WGBH-FM began broadcasting, supported by the talent and money contributed by each member of the Council. The rare broadcasting fervor that drove such stolid institutions as Harvard or the Symphony to contribute unrestricted funds to a fledgling radio station must have reached the staff and performers as well: WGBH-FM soon attained national recognition for several top-notch programs, including Professor G. Wallace Woodworth's "Tomorrow's Symphony...
...countries propelled to independence since the beginning of World War II, none set out with more confident fervor than Indonesia. After 350 years as a colony of the Dutch, one sudden, exuberant transformation made the islands the world's sixth most populous nation (80 million), rich in natural resources, and in national ambition. This month, the young Indonesian Republic begins its sixth year of independence, and the confident fervor is gone. The economy is sick with inflation. Unrest is growing among the 90% Moslem population because of 1) the weakness of the central government...
...disagree with a client's views: the heart of the matter, he always insisted, was whether or not an individual's liberties had been damaged. Lawyer Hays was able to defend Harry Bridges' freedom of action and Henry Ford's freedom of speech with equal fervor...
...most remarkable thing about last week's demonstrations was that they represented the only display of overt passion in a week when the U.N. methodically put off action on a whole roster of major colonial issues. Yet few subjects ordinarily incite more fervor-spontaneous or arranged-or provide more clash of interest and search of conscience than the cry of colonialism. In the closing days of the ninth session, the U.N.'s General Assembly voted...
...principals, Castellani has gained the full advantage of their youth-and also of their inexperience. As Romeo, Laurence Harvey fails to generate much glandular heat, and, like most Romeos, reads his lines with a kind of empty fervor. Susan Shentall, while reading hers without distinction, nevertheless has what is so rare and so right in a Juliet: a delicate haze of sensuality that clouds the clear child face with passion's promises. The scene in which Romeo and Juliet meet, in which she foots the galliard, and the two touch trembling hands in the dainty ballad of the masks...