Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Liberal Leader Lester Bowles ("Mike") Pearson cautioned that Diefenbaker's vision might endanger relations with Canada's closest neighbor and best customer, the U.S. But Diefenbaker's speeches, vibrating with evangelical fervor, wrung cheers from Newfoundland fishermen who still use Elizabethan turns of speech, touched off one of melting-pot Winnipeg's wildest political demonstrations. And most surprising, it galvanized French-speaking Liberal Quebec into returning the biggest Tory delegation (50 of 75 seats) it has ever sent to Ottawa...
Bundle of Paradoxes. In less capable hands than Playwright Costigan's, Little Moon might have been eclipsed by the maudlin religiosity that afflicts showmen on rare visits to church. Costigan told his mystic-tinged love story with subtlety, taste and poetic fervor. His unloving lovers were Julie (Joan of Arc) Harris, no stranger to theatrical heights, and Christopher Plummer, the Toronto-born actor who did as well for Costigan as he usually does in Shakespeare. His director was Hall of Fame's skilled George Schaefer. But the playwright had mostly himself to thank for the story, in which...
Shorn Rump & Hock. At the climax of the ritual, a livestock farmer in a dinner jacket squatted before six dogs already judged best of their groups and poked, prodded and peered with fervor while the animals danced through their paces. Said Judge William W. Brainard Jr., the Jersey farmer who made the final choice of the best dog: "Believe it or not," said Brainard, "it was a very close decision." After communing with himself he bestowed the blue ribbon on Ch. (for Champion) Puttencove Promise, a pure white standard poodle...
...field mice. President Sukarno lingered on, neither ruling nor resting, though the government announced that he was leaving any minute for a vacation tour which would range from Tokyo to Cairo. But government officials were working to stop the forcible seizure of Dutch properties by workers inflamed with nationalist fervor at The Netherlands' refusal to discuss the question of West Irian (Netherlands New Guinea). In East Java, Indonesian army officers confronted a mob that had surrounded the home of a Dutch estate manager. "Are you brave, very brave?" asked one officer. "Yes, yes!" yelled the workers, apparently...
...Scribner's Monthly for July, 1876, Horace E. Scudder wrote this description of the University: "That repression or even disdain of enthusiasm, that emulation of high-bred cynicism and arrogant coolness, which in a young man do not be-token the healthiest, strongest character, is prevalent. The divine fervor of enthusiasm is openly, or by implication, voted a vulgar thing...