Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Italy's Reds dislike Mario Scelba with a special fervor. For Premier Scelba is a double threat: he leans to the left with a program that competes for the workman's allegiance, he is also the tough-minded Interior Minister who in 1948 cowed Italy's rioting Reds with his jeep-riding celere. Last week, as Scelba prepared to ask the Senate and Chamber to confirm his new government, the Communists took after him in the piazza and in Parliament...
...thousand filled the Theatre des Champs-Elysees to hear his program of Brahms, Schumann, Chopin and Liszt, cheered up four encores and, at the end, crowded around the stage shouting for more. Verdict of the serious-minded critic of Paris-Presse on the performance: "A miracle of faith and fervor...
...coalition between bishop and barons seems too gruff and intense. All four share the same fault in the last act speeches, when the knights suddenly abandon their roles of drunken killers and become apologists for their deeds. Although their explanations are fantastic, Eliot included them to show the earnest fervor with which the murder was done. But in the HDC production, the four knights seemed scarcely to believe the speeches they gave. Although the parts are humorous, they should not be delivered as intentionally...
...triflingly tiny stage, and in a hall whose acoustics magnify sound with the fervor of a shower stall, a group from Harvard and Radcliffe is furnishing a first rate evening of Gilbert and Sullivan. With minor exceptions, the singing of both the principals and chorus is excellent, and even the less sparkling acting supplies in enthusiasm what it lacks in conviction...
...Sweden, gymnastics is a national pastime, embraced with evangelical fervor. Last week a 13-man group of muscular missionaries from Sweden, including the nation's entire eight-man Olympic team, reached the University of Illinois in the course of a 10,000-mile tour to carry the calisthenic word to the New World. The Swedes gave a packed house of 4,000 Illini an athletic eyeful. In turn, the Swedes were given a tumbling treat by U.S. Champion Dickie Browning that left them gasping...