Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nehru got his chance at Bangalore where 350 members of the All India Congress Committee met to make plans for India's forthcoming general elections (probably at the end of 1951). With evangelical fervor, Nehru campaigned for Congress Party reforms, told members that it would be better for them to lose the elections than lose their souls. Before a nineteen-member working committee, Nehru demanded reorganization of the Congress Party's election board (which nominates candidates) so as to give his own followers a chance against Tandon's party machine. He also asked that charges of corruption...
...word that issues from that pulpit has changed drastically, too. Except in the South, evangelical fervor is on the discard in most of the "leading" Protestant denominations. Methodist Hutchinson is not happy about what has replaced it: "A kind of preaching which, at its best, is in direct descent from the ethical insights of the Old Testament prophets, but which too often is diluted from that into something perilously akin to that careful moralism against which the Evangelical Revival revolted...
Contacted last night director Johann Wolfgang Schneider, world-famous blower and Bock enthusiast, said that his band would render everything it could lay its hands on. "We'll tear through Souse and Schlitz with equal fervor," he said, "and anything else we can see--which won't be much...
...main supporters of Communism in this country have a large percentage of young gentlemen whose parents have substantial properties. There is in human nature an element that is drawn by the spirit of adventure, the lure of sacrifice and the attraction of secrecy. [The Communists] have replaced the fervor of old-fashioned religion with the fervor of their new creed...
...eagerness to read everything, from the hearts of celery to the mind of God, as well as in the gingerbread elaborations of his style, Author Blackwood is more a Victorian than a modern. Yet, far more than most Victorians, Blackwood has a fervor for the inhuman, subhuman, or superhuman, and a distaste for the world of men. The story in which Black wood expresses his keenest distaste for actual life is perhaps his most carefully composed one, The Lost Valley. Twin brothers, who have lived only for each other for 35 years, find themselves in love with the same woman...