Word: perfervidly
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...reverent followers to this day keep his shrunken body embalmed within the 130-acre colony where he reigned as King Ben of the House of David. But immortality has proved equally elusive for the faithful, and death has succeeded, where scandal and scoffery failed, in dooming the perfervid, long-thriving sect. Once the House of David had 1,200 members, controlled a business empire valued at $10,000,000, and won nationwide fame as a communal colony whose male members kept their beards unshaved and locks uncut in emulation of Christ. Today, in pathetic contrast, its membership has dwindled...
...Maine, at the tender age of seven. Published in The New Yorker, the note is introduced briefly by Family Historian Buddy Glass, who for years has been garrulously obsessed by the memory of his suicide brother. By the letter, Childe Seymour seems to have been, practically from birth, a perfervid scholar, linguist, spiritual genius and altogether verbose little man who finds everything in life "heartrending," or "damnable." "My emotions are too damnably raw today, I fear," he starts, and in 28,000 words plunges forth to speculate on God, reincarnation, Proust, Balzac, baseball and the charms of the camp director...
...have won Lilith a place among far worthier movies in the recent New York Film Festival. Certainly, the techniques of modern moviemaking are much in evidence. Sound and images overlap. During long silent passages, the characters narrow their eyes at one another, conveying reams of censorable prose in each perfervid glance. The photography is often eerily beautiful-a subaqueous twilight world where everyone's torment finally condenses into eddying streams, stagnant pools and rushing rapids, an unsettling suggestion that the machinery of despair is water-driven...
Petty Game. Dutch opinion, though in less perfervid language, essentially agreed that the princess was letting herself be used by the Carlists for their own purpose, however absurd, of gaining the Spanish throne. To a lot of people outside Holland, this petty political game-and the government's anxious insistence that the Dutch monarchy must stay out of it-did not seem reason enough for Irene's own parents to boycott the wedding. But under the Dutch constitution the government is held responsible for the monarch's actions. Besides, Holland maintains a sometimes precarious balance between...
...Craig, president of the American Bar Association, see every decision in terms of their own pet love or hate. Stoutly defending the court in a speech to lawyers in conservative Phoenix, Ariz., Craig reasoned that such subjectivity "completely ignores the complex and subtle functioning of the judicial process." For perfervid critics of the "Warren Court," he then analyzed four "controversial" decisions...