Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your review of the forthcoming African sculpture exhibition in the British Museum [Oct. 5] ... when you talk about "harmony and order" being sacrificed to "demoniac fervor," it appears as if you would have never really seen African sculptures. They are, in fact, of great harmony and order of volumes, expressing a deeply felt religious fervor . . . African sculpture is one of the great artistic achievements, comparable to any of the great periods in the history...
...Greece was all but bankrupt, and much of it was reduced to rubble. Aided and supplied from outside, Greek Communists were fighting-and winning-a bloody guerrilla war against their fellow countrymen. The future of Greece's throne offered at best a long-shot gamble, but with the fervor and thoroughness of a born politico, Frederika set to work canvassing her constituents and winning them over to her side. During the first years of Paul's reign, scarcely a square mile in all the 51,000 that formed Greece was left untrodden by either the King, the Queen...
...years, Banker Thornton has boosted Dallas with the fervor of a man in love. In 1935, as president of the Chamber of Commerce, he persuaded the legislature that Dallas, by virtue of its progressive spirit and convenient location, was the right site for the Texas Centennial-although both San Antonio and Houston had better historical claims. The Centennial-in Dallas-was a stampeding eyecatcher, and it was only natural, afterwards, that Thornton should turn his attention to the creaking old State Fair...
...hearers, it was well-remembered history. Turkey in 1919 was crushed, defeated from without, disintegrating within. Gone was the fury and might which, beginning in 1299, had sent Ottoman legions smashing at Vienna's gates and made Budapest a suburb of Constantinople. Gone was the conquering fervor that created a tri-continental empire the size of the U.S., encompassing what are now 20 modern nations stretching from the Dniester to the Nile, from the Adriatic to the Persian Gulf. In 1919, British warships still rode in the Bosporus and British troops held Constantinople; Italy, France and Greece were secretly...
...experimentation by African art. But moderns, for the most part, have imitated the forms of African sculpture, divorced from the spirit inside them. By civilized standards, that spirit is nightmarishly superstitious. Harmony and order-as much a part of the classical art heritage as realism-are sacrificed to demoniac fervor. But African sculpture has an intensity greater than any that modern art has yet achieved...