Word: ardent
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...discouraged the attendance of any but the wealthy. This is understandable, particularly for an event billed as a fund-raiser. But what is less understandable is that this kind of crowd, made up of people from Newton and Brookline, not New Bedford or South Boston, represents McGovern's most ardent following, and form, in effect, a prison out of which he has been unable to escape...
...opposed progressive education, took a strong stand against the romance between Princess Margaret and the divorced Peter Townsend, and shocked millions by asserting that man's nuclear destruction might be God's will. Despite his critical attitude toward Roman Catholic dogmatism, Fisher was an ardent ecumenist and made a precedent-setting visit in 1960 to Rome, where he met with Pope John XXIII...
...unhappy lover of an elusive sylph (Natalia Makarova) with something like delicacy and restraint. In Anton Dolin's Variations for Four, he stole the show with the sheer, pantherish abandon of his movements. As the young seducer in Antony Tudor's Pillar of Fire, he was appropriately ardent. Last week, in Fokine's Le Spectre de la Rose, he was a little too effeminate as the Spirit of the Rose (not helped by a lurid pink, rose-petaled body stocking) but danced with lyrical grace...
...isolationist mood that McGovern's defense policies and even his acceptance theme, "Come home, America," suggest. Perhaps all of the conventional political blocs still wield decisive electoral power-and are moving away from the Democratic Party. Or, even if McGovern is riding a movement as pervasive as his ardent advisers envision, the national electorate could find him inadequate to lead...
Except for an ardent few, Americans have traditionally looked upon long hikes as a slow form of torture inflicted upon Boy Scouts and Army infantrymen. That view seems to be changing. With 20-to 40-lb. packs strapped to their backs, millions of nature lovers are now taking to the trails. Many stick to the neighboring countryside, but some groups are venturing so far into the wilderness that they carry homing pigeons to send back in case of trouble. (One feathered courier brought back news of a forest fire last year.) Other backpackers boldly tackle the four-month trek from...