Word: ardent
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...bewildered over how to accept him at all. He chafes and broods and breaks loose; he talks to prostitutes in a bar, talks to one of them in her room; is crushed by the death of his grandmother (well played by Estelle Hemsley), restored to life by an ardent young widow...
...with scenario and sets by Orson Welles. Welles, challenged to try a ballet at a chance meeting with Choreographer Roland Petit in Paris, tossed off a scenario idea on the spot: a young girl is frozen in a block of ice; thawed out by a young man's ardent dancing, she comes to life, but as her enthusiasm waxes, his wears out, and at the end it is he who is frozen solid. Welles helped with the staging, came through with a method of displaying Heroine Colette Marchand as if she were suspended in ice. Near the finish...
Died. Jacques Thibaud, 72, famed French violin virtuoso; in an airline crash near Barcelonnette in the French Alps. Ardent Patriot Thibaud fought as an infantryman in World War I, and before and during World War II turned down all offers to play in Hitler's Germany. In 1947, still spry and healthy, he made his last U.S. appearance with the New York Philharmonic, devoted most of his last years to encouraging a new generation of young violinists and pianists...
Counterforces. To be sure, Gruenther added that "if ever there was a time for relaxation, this is not it." But Europeans are resigned to this kind of U.S. moralizing. Not even EDC's most ardent champions expect ratification before mid-1954. Three big counterforces...
...Administration, which hopes to make private investment abroad a big part of its "Trade, Not Aid" program, got some discouraging news last week from one of the program's most ardent supporters. In a 132-page report, the first installment of a three-part study, the Commerce Department's Office of International Trade tested the climate for U.S. venture capital in the world's major countries and came to a chilling conclusion: "Prospects for a greatly increased flow of U.S. private investment abroad are unfavorable in the next few years...