Word: ardente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heard about the mayor of a large eastern city who recently had occasion to announce that he wished people wouldn't pester him to fix yellow tickets. He could only manage the red ones--for parking. It never occurred to the businessman who told us this story (an ardent opponent of "Truman corruption") that this was itself a form of corruption--to him the fixing of tickets had no moral significance at all. The plain fact is that a certain amount of corruption is fundamental to the American way of life and the American way of politics. One has only...
...always been the most curious to us, however, is the undoubted fact that the number of Communists in government has never been more than a handful, a fraction of the numbers which have been assaulting France and Italy for years in vain. Yet no one, not even the most ardent anti-McCarthyite, has asked the question: how much actual damage has been done by these subversives? It is natural to be troubled by the idea of foreign agents in one's government, but if the consequences have not been very serious one has no cause for hysteria. It is well...
Caterpillar eggs recently joined the ranks of unsiezed contraband. Two ardent Yardling biologists this fall actually resorted to smuggling eggs from Canada in trying to raise half a dozen Japanese silk forms and earn...
Judith realizes then that her husband cannot be fulfilled by any one woman: his first wife was dewy-fresh like the morning; the second was ardent noon; the third was a twilight sorrower. Too late, she makes her final discovery: her curiosity has gone too far. Bluebeard hands her the mantle of night, and she joins the others behind the seventh door. Judith is sung by Soprano Ann Ayars; her "inner self" is danced simultaneously by Mary Hinkson. Bluebeard is sung by James Pease (his inner self is the castle). All this had the first-night audience sitting...
...impassioned Democrat, Dever has everything to offer: he has supported much of Massachusetts' progressive labor legislation, built badly-needed roads, and subsidized the construction of local schools with state money. To the ardent Republican though, he has done nothing good at all. For him Deverism equals corruption, bloated expenditures, incompetent administration...