Word: ardent
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...subject of his appointment to the presidency of Mount Holyoke College, Professor Ham said that he had no definite platform of administration but intended to work quitely within the existing system for what he believed was the ideal. Referring to the recent agitation against his appointment by an ardent group of Mount Holyoke feminists, he said with a smile, "I have received innumerable welcomes and some shots since my appointment...
...ardent passages Rodzinski still likes to put down his baton and shape the music with his bare hands, a habit he picked up from Stokowski. From Stokowski too he may well have learned the flexible beats and ingenious phrasing that made many concertgoers consider him the ablest conductor they had heard this season. Others felt he exaggerated certain passages beyond all reason, such as the second movement of the Sibelius Second which he takes more slowly than any other conductor alive...
...what it too often kills. Youth has the gift of prophecy. It may not know well what is, but it has the right to say what ought to be. It is the time to be radical. "Especially when some storm is brewing in the world the words of ardent young men may bring premonitory flashes of light or anger, impossible to suppress, and important to notice...
Passing through the Guggenheim collection last week, critics noted that even such ardent non-representationalists as Rudolf Bauer occasionally slip. Painting No. 57, Blue Balls, showed obvious and unmistakable balls, in blue...
...voice. . . . Among the abundant fruits of salvation which we anticipate from your Congress and for which we pray, there is one hope of which we will make mention, the one which your session had particularly in view: It is our hope, namely, that from a more ardent love of our Lord in the august sacrament of the altar and from more frequent communion with him there may come a daily increase of devotion to missions and enterprise for the promotion of missionary activity. For it is from that very source that light is given our minds, ardor to our souls...