Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the bourgeoisie guided culture. On these slender foundations arose a whole school of Marxist philology. Its chief oracle was a philology professor called Nikolai Marr, the son of a Scottish father and a Georgian mother; he was 53 when the revolution broke out, but embraced Bolshevism with youthful fervor. Marr advocated the development of one universal language, not necessarily Russian, for World Communism. Marr died in 1934, but his work was carried on by disciples...
What also hurt was the snubs and ruthless practical jokes with which most of the club members liked to torment him. Zanuck, who has never lost the fervor for practical joking that he acquired as a constant victim of it, recalls that the pranks were "not always too pleasant, too nice...
Crew coach Tom Bolles, ever the pessimist, sang his pre-race blues with greater fervor than usual Thursday. Once again he lamented the damage that foul weather has done to his practice schedule. Princeton, on the other hand, works out in relatively balmy latitudes on an artificial lake, sheltered from winds...
...Spain, an unprecedented wave of religious fervor swept a country in which life, year by year, gets harder. From Málaga to Zamora and from Murcia to Pamplona, thousands of black-robed, black-hooded men, carrying a cross in one hand, a torch in the other, formed endless Holy Week processions. Madrileños also pushed baby carriages loaded with infants, black bread, sausage and wine into the country for Easter picnics, saw the Castilian plateau in an almost forgotten dress. Since 1942 central Spain has been brown and barren with drought. Last week the plain was alive with...
...another: "I don't even know the melody." Nevertheless, when the curtain went down on Tosca, then up again on a gala pageant of recent Met history, every singer present seemed to roar it out like a native, and from the heart. There was good reason for their fervor: the pageant was the Met's farewell to pink-cheeked, white-haired General Manager Edward Johnson, who will retire when Manager-Designate Rudolf Bing takes over...