Word: fervors
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...predictably exciting and predictably disastrous, a power struggle that ended in the humiliating scene: Mary begging Fuseli's wife to allow a ménage à trois in which Mary was to be a purely "spiritual partner." Mme. Fuseli was not agreeable. In France, where Mary's fervor for the French Revolution was eventually chilled by the Terror, she fell in love with a flaky American adventurer named Gilbert Imlay; he left her with an illegitimate daughter. No biographer can be expected to re-create the desperate, ineffectual rage that sometimes leads people to attempt suicide. In this...
Then came Mao's Cultural Revolution. The churches that had been allowed to stay open were turned into workshops and warehouses, and a concerted campaign was mounted to convert the remaining religious Chinese -both Christian and non-Christian-to the fervor of Maoism. But pockets of ideological resistance seem to remain...
...show was good, too good--almost to the point of being decadent. Their sexful vocal arrangements and provocative lyrics ("I come like the pouring rain each time you call my name") was fast to send an almost orgiastic fervor throughout the audience. The atmosphere at times recalled images of the bawdy cabarets of the Weimar Republic when the Nazis were coming to power or of Times Square on any given Saturday night...
...CLASH with General Motors, Ralph Nader was only half jokingly dubbed "crusader." The automobile is not a commodity; it is the sacrament of a religion. It is in this context that groups such as the AAA argue against the Center for Auto Safety with what approaches religious fervor...
...friends' intentions. After speaking with him, it is easy to emerge with the belief that the Greeks who are in the Hellenic Students Association--and he says 90 per cent of the Greeks who are at Harvard and MIT are--are rich kids indulging themselves the fervor of radicalism during their stints in the United States. When they return to Greece and what he predicts will be a "new dictatorship," Hadzilacos suggests that he and his comrades might just look complacently to secure and nonsubversive jobs...