Word: fervors
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...Redmond, Wash., draws a diagram of a river, then stick-figure babies floating in the river and then her plan for heading upstream to where those babies are falling into the river and solving the problem there. She's told this story two dozen times. But there is a fervor in her brown eyes and a drill-to-the-core focus that made her the top female executive at Microsoft until her retirement, at age 40, in 1997. She does not draw a salary for her work with the Gates Foundation. "We have an approach here that is very much...
...Texas high school was a different world. Prayer season lasted all year, and I was fascinated by the fervor of my peers. Any cause for anxiety--tests, games, dates --was a chance to invoke Jesus. Up North, if I had seen a group of girls clutched together and whispering, it was a clear sign of gossip. Here it was a prayer circle, and there were boys in it too, holding hands, heads down, powerfully silent. To an outsider who had yet to make many friends, the prayer circles had some compelling advantages. If you aimed your point of entry correctly...
...have on the human brain. A mere snippet of song from the past can trigger memories as vivid as anything Proust experienced from the aroma of his petite madeleine. A tune can induce emotions ranging from unabashed joy to deep sorrow and can drive listeners into states of patriotic fervor or religious frenzy--to say nothing of its legendary ability to soothe the savage breast...
...this Cote d'Azur paradise is granted by press pass or market badge (for members of the industry). But lacking those, you can always try begging. One Frenchwoman, denied admission to a screening of Lars von Trier's Dancer in the Dark, sobbed at the barricades with such fervor that she could have earned a role in Les Miserables...
...other tracks, Eminem goes after gays with a fervor that would shame Dr. Laura. On one song, he raps: "My words are like a dagger with a jagged edge/That'll stab you in the head whether you're a fag or lez," and then goes on to make fun of the 1997 killing of designer Gianni Versace ("Whoops--somebody shot...