As ever, it forces Abstract Expressionist fervor through a Minimalist sieve into its own private Idaho of Post-Minimalism.
But many smaller art institutions see it as a new frontier for a movement whose roots stretch back to the 1960s but has picked up fervor through Occupy Wall Street and the rise of social activism among young artists.
In Beethoven's late work "Der Kuss," he stayed just this side of parody in romping through the repetitions, and he maintained fervor through the recitativelike passages of Schubert's "Trost: an Elisa" and "Laura am Klavier".
Moral fervor bubbles through these unconventional stories about male selfishness, which are populated by "monstrous, parodic versions of Updikean characters," Adam Goodheart said here in 1999.
Once viewed as a potential threat by Jerusalem, the government in Saudi Arabia is increasingly viewed as a guarantor of stability in a region in upheaval, as revolutionary fervor sweeps through the Middle East.
Sally, fifteen years old, after weeks of reading poetry and scribbling with mounting fervor, whirls through Greenwich Village possessed by a belief that people are born with genius but gradually lose it.
The song was "Pressure," from Quadron's self-titled 2009 debut album, and it arrived stark and hard, with Coco O digging deep and opening wide, a moment of arresting church fervor breaking through the placid surface.
Gentle religious fervor coursed through Matthew Rushing's "Phillipians 3," a well-plotted trio (Cari-Len Orr, Hope Boykin and Shaya Jenkins) that built on the idea of Talley Beatty's "Mourner's Bench" without imitating that classic.
How difficult it is now to reconjure up the widespread public optimism of the spring of 2011, when Syria was engulfed in the passionate upheaval proclaimed to be an "Arab Spring," an upwelling of democratic fervor sweeping through the Middle East, a seemingly unstoppable and overwhelmingly positive force.
The momentum of the tax-cut fervor carried through the presidencies of George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, and in 2000 became the campaign trail rallying cry of George W. Bush.
So why do they need a mosque with a capacity of 2000 people?" A series of speakers address the crowd through a modest PA, shouting partly through fervor, partly as a practical necessity.
