Word: ardente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bayreuth's case: some of Wagner's Third Reich worshipers (most notable: Adolf Hitler) "made him a Nazi-he was not." The prewar boss of the festival, Wagner's daughter-in-law Winifred, mother of Wieland and Wolfgang, once an ardent Nazi, has retired from all connection with festival affairs in illustration of the point. Moreover, the new Bayreuth is stressing the fact that Wagner admired the U.S. He wrote a grand march for Philadelphia's celebration of the looth anniversary of independence (he was paid $5,000 for it*), planned to visit the U.S. before...
...Germans brooded over this indignity. Last month two Heidelberg students, 21-year-old Georg von Hatzfeld and 22-year-old René Leudesdorff, had an idea. Said Leudesdorff, an ardent United Europe supporter: "We suddenly saw that Helgoland was a symbol of injustice.* We decided to make an issue of Helgoland in order to clear everyone's conscience...
...from being the perfect weapon. Some doctors think that it can be downright dangerous; even its most ardent partisans admit that it will not do a complete immunization job in every case. It can be used only on patients showing no active sign of the disease. An added difficulty is the fact that no one can be certain just how effective BCG is until it is made the only preventive agent in a long-term experiment on a large mass of people...
...That ardent disciple of nonpartisanship, who has made it work for the second most populous state in the Union . . . Governor Earl Warren of California . . . J. L. ROSENBERG Sacramento, Calif...
...vote was a reversal for the once high-hopeful, go-fast faction. Led by the French and Italians, the ardent federalists had urged an immediate supranational authority; last summer they seemed to have the support of the most of the Consultative Assembly. But British Socialists adamantly refused to go along. They stood for union, they insisted, but not union now. First, to protect Britain's planned economy, there should be a "functional" approach through which the nations could get together in particular economic, social, cultural and other fields. As an example of what they meant, the British cited...