Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with horses--he blinds six of them for no immediately apparent reason, passion is a misplaced religious feeling for horses as all-seeing gods that developed out of his father's refusal to let him ride a horse when a child and his mother's proselityzing fervor (or so the play simplistically postulates). And the ritual that surrounds this passion plumbs to the depths of the unconscious mind: of sexuality, aggressiveness, bestiality, and the need to explain this world through some from of myth...
...this idea to explain everything about American society these days, and in particular the fall of the various movements of the sixties. The counterculture, despite its noble opposition to technique, tried to create alternatives in a world where there can be no alternatives. It was reacting with hopeful millennial fervor to social upheaval, which was perfectly understandable but led nowhere. Hougan doesn't see the counterculture as political in nature, and in fact he reacts to the New Left with almost unremittent bitterness. The Left in the sixties was "blunt and calculated," he says, "exploiting Vietnam as an opportunity...
...them thinking in particular ways about Assembly issues. Heavy on political consciousness raising, they give a once-over-lightly to traditional belief. Much of the political criticism zeroes in on the West, while Communist and Third World countries are largely exempt. Claims one piece in a flight of revolutionary fervor: Mainland China "is the only truly Christian country in the world." To U.S. Catholic Theologian Avery Dulles, the W.C.C. "has been progressively drawn into a political and social activism that makes little reference to the theological tradition." Within the council, the same complaint comes from Eastern Orthodox members, even some...
Waving a forest of red flags with green five-pointed stars and shouting praises to the glory of Allah, more than 40,000 enthusiastic Moroccans last Thursday obeyed the order of their King and marched into the Spanish Sahara. In fervor and numbers, the invasion evoked memories of the armies of the Prophet Mohammed embarked on a holy war-or, possibly, a biblical epic staged by Hollywood. By week's end nearly 100,000 of the unarmed marchers, asserting Morocco's claim to the mineral-rich Spanish colony, had moved seven miles across the border and were camped...
...Rooster in order to help avenge her father's death. The pair quarrel along a meandering trail. She tries to reform him or at least get him to take a bath and ease up on the corn likker. He grouses about the talky ways into which her moral fervor leads her. In the end, needless to say, mutual respect bordering on romantic attachment develops between them...