Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...growing up in Michigan, CBS's The Seven Lively Arts this week firmly established itself as one of the season's brightest newcomers with The Revivalists, a hallelujah-breathing documentary film on militant evangelism. From the husky-voiced zeal of Billy Sunday to the polished fervor of Billy Graham, the camera caught arresting glimpses of believers throbbing with the joy of religion. A Negro named Cat-Iron Carradino croaked a hymn and plucked his guitar as he carried the message down Tin Can Alley in Natchez, Miss. The face of Negro Singer Mahalia Jackson seemed to take...
Teller's hectic schedule has damaged his health: suffering from ulcerative colitis, he takes daily doses of atropine and phenobarbital, sticks to a doctor-ordered diet, painful for a man who devours food with Hungarian gusto. But a damaged constitution has not damped his crusader's fervor. The late great Nuclear Physicist Enrico Fermi once said to him, with affectionate exasperation: "In my acquaintance, you are the only monomaniac with several manias." Princeton Physicist John Wheeler, who worked on both the A-bomb and the H-bomb, put it more truly. The essence of Teller's character...
Kolakowski has been a Communist since he was 18, won scholastic fame for the fervor of his pro-Stalinist views. But even before the Soviet 20th Party Congress, Kolakowski had established himself as the leader of the group of passionate dissenters now known as the enragés ("the enraged ones"). Last month, in Warsaw's Nowa Kultura, Kolakowski published a four-part critique that flays the Soviet order, and inferentially Wladyslaw Gomulka, with the cold-steel precision of a surgical scalpel...
...time had come for Arabs, with much bussing and holding of hands, to prove that they are all brothers-a ceremonial which involves increased fervor on the occasions when the sentiment is least true...
...greatest work among the Bridge group was one of them for only a year and a half: Emil Nolde, a grim north German, who came equipped with "tempests of color.'' Driven by what he called an "irresistible desire for a representation of the deepest spirituality, religion and fervor,'' Nolde turned to the Gospels, in his Christ Among the Children (see color page) created a new and powerful religious art that not only turns its back on the wrung-out humanism of the Renaissance but achieves in its glowing children and astonished disciples a thick religious fervor...