Word: fervors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Through two hundred years and four major periods of reform fervor, the history of progresive reform is, apparently, the history of much reform but modest progress. Reform seems ephemeral, privilege reincarnate, and the realization of the democratic ideal only marginally closer in 1976 than...
...Stratas still feels, "I haven't found the track of what I am going to do in my life." Her dark brown eyes-part of her Cretan heritage-shine with fervor as she says: "Music is tied in with it-it is part of something leading me somewhere. I don't know where it is or what, but I have bigger things I am going to do. Opera has never been enough.'' -By Michael Walsh. Reported by Nancy Neuman/New York
Much of this nationalistic fervor arises from what the children have seen firsthand as well as what they have been taught-as Nabil pointed out in the West Bank-so it is not fair to regard them solely as their elders' tools. Also their indoctrination may be indirect. The normal conversation of parents will influence children in any circumstance, and it would be a lot to ask of Palestinian parents that they display a political evenhandedness they do not feel. It may even be that for children like those in the Tel Zaatar home, this single-mindedness...
...German painters that have filled half a dozen Manhattan galleries in recent weeks. The neoexpressionists are presented as missionary confreres: burning with social idealism and certified angst, robed in rough paint (crudity equals sincerity) and the turgid hyperbole of German critics. Their work is meant to evoke the fervor and spiritual elevation of German art in the '20s-Nolde, Beckmann, Kirchner, Macke. If only it could! What we get, it turns out, is more art about art about art, another small room in the mirror-lined flophouse of late modernity. This sort of idealist regression seems either contrived...
...cross-legged on the lawn. The finished painting became the Reagans' Christmas card this year. That token of good will to men is not a new phenomenon in the federal city, where trouble is the main business. Many Presidents have turned to Christmas festivities with a special fervor, to dispel for a few precious hours the gloom that usually presses in. Back in 1941, when war had come and news of defeat was the daily Washington fare, Franklin Roosevelt brought a guest to the South Portico on Christmas Eve. Winston Churchill looked out over thousands of troubled people...