Word: fervour
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...series, with whom Snow is most often compared, for Snow admits that Eliot had his base in autobiography, even though much of him is invented. But it is not Eliot of whom I thought, talking with Snow, but rather Arthur Brown: "Jago might indulge his emotions, act with a fervour that Brown thought excessive and in bad taste, . . . show nothing like the solid rational decorums which was Brown's face to the world. Brown's affection did not budge. In the depth of his heart he loved Jago's wilder outbursts, and wished that he could have gone that...