Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...money out of France to buy arms and munitions for the F.L.N. columns fighting the French in Algeria. All but six of the 25 were French men and women-teachers, mathematicians, TV producers, actors-who had betrayed the government of France not for money but out of an idealistic fervor of their own. One of the defendants, pale, thin France Binard, had lost eight members of her family in Nazi concentration camps. She said grimly: "I answer fully for what I have done. Through my presence here before you, I continue my fight." Defendant Jean-Claude Paupert. an ex-soldier...
...unpredictable as his audiences. Often, when his political antennae sensed the mood of his listeners, he threw away his carefully prepared texts (to the despair of such highcaliber, hard-working speechwriters as Dick Goodwin, Ted Sorensen and John Bartlow Martin) and launched into impromptu speeches with an eloquence and fervor that reminded middle-aged listeners of the young F.D.R., and touched off wild ovations. Again, he plodded through his speeches as unenthusiastically as his listeners responded to them. Under the direction of Voice Coach Blair McClosky, the Kennedy voice was usually well modulated, right from the diaphragm. But occasionally...
...production is slick, the songs are good-notably one in which Crooner Frankie Vaughan says with fervor, in effect, never mind good lyrics, "give me a song that sells"-and the plot no thinner than most. The supporting actors are expert, especially Tony Randall, who plays Montand's pressagent with an accurate blend of servility and fresh-faced eagerness. One reason why the film, although consistently pleasant, is only fitfully funny may be a plague now widespread in Hollywood movies. Milton Berle, Gene Kelly and Bing Crosby appear in brief "cameo" parts as themselves (they are supposed...
...grounds, surrounding a high wooden altar. Direct from Rome they heard a radio message from John XXIII: "You and we perceive with great concern what dark clouds of danger hover over mankind and how heavily the peace of nations is threatened. Therefore let us pray together and with great fervor that Jesus Christ the Prince of Peace illumine the spirits of the leaders of the states...
...prices running $14 million a year less than the price of the Venezuelan crude it replaces, though the high cost of transport must in the end be paid by Cuba. Economic sanctions, so long as Castro's popularity lasts with his people, may even increase their fervor for a time...