Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Across the East River from the Great White Way, some 60 gospel shouters are shaking the Brooklyn Academy of Music with the soaring sounds of religious fervor. The Gospel at Colonus is an unlikely enterprise: the story of Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus as it might be enacted by a black evangelical congregation on a splendid Sunday morning. Sophocles' theme was man's acceptance of the inevitability of death; Adapter-Director Lee Breuer's is the black man's and woman's reconciliation to a hard life in these United States. If Breuer...
Housewives, professors, actors, doctors, writers, clergymen, nuns, computer programmers, retirees and students tumble off the afternoon Aeronica flight from Miami, loosening ties and donning VIVA SANDING! T shirts in anticipation of tropical heat and revolutionary fervor. The itinerary includes weekly "face the people" meetings that Nicaraguan leaders usually hold in poor barrios of Managua. "We are ashamed, truly ashamed, as U.S. citizens, about the Reagan Administration policy toward Nicaragua," proclaimed Paula Braverman, a San Francisco physician, at a recent rally...
INFUSED with democratic fervor, the Undergraduate Council last week decided it was not fit to decide whether it should sponsor a spring concert by the Grateful Dead, and that the matter should be be taken directly to the people. So today, tomorrow and Wednesday, all students can vote on the question in their Houses--the first referendum on a council-related issue since the formation of the organization itself. They should, on principle, refuse to vote on the question...
Internally, as the airport ceremony for the wounded demonstrated, Castro is appealing to patriotic fervor rather than revolutionary enthusiasm to maintain his hold on the populace. There is, in fact, little of the old guerrilla spirit left in Cuba: like Castro, the revolution has gone middle-aged and gray. Visitors to Havana are struck by the similarity to most Communist countries: a rigid bureaucracy, a once lively press that is now dismissed even by sympathetic leftists as boring, buildings that are shabbily maintained...
...give an inch. When she really gets going, she throws down her glasses on the table." Reagan's advisers surely knew that if she were picked, Kirkpatrick could be expected to exacerbate rather than mediate Administration turf and ideological disputes. Her hard-line views, held with sometimes evangelical fervor, can be bracing when aired in the U.N. hall, but might be too rigid in the pivotal White House foreign policy slot...