Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...religious revival" that has attracted so much national attention thus does not represent an upsurge of religious feeling in the traditional sense--i.e. increased church attendance, greater number of baptisms, or greater religious fervor. The current change in feeling actually represents a renewal of interest in religion. This heightened interest is reflected more in campus discussion than in church attendance figures--although more students than ever before have attended Memorial Church in the last five years...
Some Lutherans, concerned that the trend to confession represents a risky rise in clerical power that is incompatible with Protestant principles, minimize it as a flash in the pan that flares in the fervor of a Kirchentag and subsides in the cooler air of everyday life. Yet a growing number of clergymen, like Munich's Pastor Adolf Sommerauer, see a strong and rising tide. "There are those who worry that confession could become a sort of fad. There is no need to propagate it. Now that it is known throughout the church that it is available, those who need...
...nightclub jazz is discouraged; the importation and sale of U.S. jazz records is taboo. But last week two topflight U.S. Negro jazzmen just back from a month-long trip behind the Iron Curtain had news that the Russians not only know all about U.S. jazz, but play it with fervor whenever Big Brother is not looking. Jazz Pianist Dwike Mitchell, 29, and Bassman Willie Ruff, 28, came home amazed: "They have a real feel for our music...
...updated by Walt Disney and fitted out with a Russian sound track. On opening day, uniformed girls handed out free Pepsi-Colas from gaily painted kiosks. More than 60,000 red begonia, white chrysanthemum and blue ageratum plants splashed color through the exhibits-not out of any special patriotic fervor, but because they are the most abundant flowers in Moscow at this season...
Another six years will pass before Bretons again walk in the footsteps of their saint. Oldtimers thought they noted particular fervor among the marchers this year, recalling the great devout pilgrimages before World War I. Still, some recalled that St. Ronan had walked barefooted. Nowadays, said a local priest, "just a few go without shoes-usually only those who have some specially profound penitence to make...