Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...music. This may be the only musical at which the audience comes into the theater humming the songs. They hold up remarkably well, even though they celebrate the memory of a simple, ardent and unskeptical U.S. that no longer exists. No one now can summon up the unblemished patriotic fervor of You're a Grand Old Flag, Yankee Doodle Dandy and Over There. Few men now can adorn a woman in the romantic gauze and adoring awe of a song like Mary. Every addicted New Yorker and theatergoer will always feel a special tingle of sentiment from the opening...
...Negro churches began in the south as meetings in the plantation fields, where slaves bewailed their torment in song and preaching. Although barred from joining white churches, Negroes were visited by white evangelists, who instilled in them the fervor and faith of oldtime religion.* The Negro accepted the doctrines but brought to the spirit of worship an intensity arising from repression. Hymns reflected both the African origin of the Negro and the agony of his existence. Sermons emphasized the vision of beatitude in the promised land; the congregation-condemned to submission and silence elsewhere-was free here to give public...
...ironic to note the passion with which Massachusetts authorities have prevented the film from being seen and the fervor of their prosecution of the producer and director for "violating the rights of patients" and for "breach of contract." This apparent concern for the "rights" of patients seems hardly compatible with the stark reality of Bridgewater State Hospital...
...Godkin topic was "To Govern for Freedom in an Age of Explosions," and Bundy's message was that the government is today the only possible agent of social reform. He pleaded with such fervor for the requisite extension of government powers that he almost ended up advocating a species of benevolent socialism for the United States...
...Pizarro in 1533, the Spanish conquistadors turned the Inca kingdom into a viceroyalty; some 16 million Indians were enslaved and converted at gunpoint. Indian artisans were appalled by the viceroy's cruelty, but they were thankful for the priests' ministrations. They embraced the conquerors' faith with fervor. They reared churches of baroque magnificence, carved passion figures of harrowing pathos. Delicately they embellished icons and chamber pots alike with the gold once sacred to the sun god and silver that once glittered in Cuzco's temple of the moon...