Word: ardente
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...impressive display for a composer whose first memorable work was completed at age 48 and whose musical merit was debated for years. An ardent nationalist and legendary eccentric, Janacek composed music full of short, abrupt but harmonically lovely melodies that built from one another into a driving whole. His symphonic works called for more brass and slashing power than many an orchestra could muster. Because Czech consonant clusters are so prickly, his operas were considered hopeless tongue twisters by singers outside his country. The subjects-time warps, prison-camp life, child murder-left audiences pining for the heraldic posturing more...
Since Lewis Carroll published Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in 1865, his Alice has stolen more hearts than the Knave did tarts. No more ardent Wonderlander exists than California Pianist and Composer David Del Tredici, 41, who has been in thrall to the book's "effortless whimsy" ever since, at age eleven, he sang the role of the White Rabbit in a school musical based on Alice. He has spent the past decade composing a series of works based on various Alice adventures. When several new orchestral works were commissioned for the U.S. Bicentennial, Del Tredici was ready...
...Oglesby Paul '38 was a lonely man. As the Harvard Medical School's new director of admissions, Paul was pushing for the elimination of a special minority admissions subcommittee to the full admissions committee; and he was doing so in the face of unanimous opposition from the full committee, ardent lobbying by Third World and minority students, and ruffled dissent from the rest of the Med School faculty...
...have now lost ten of their last 12 games, and most of their lead over the Brewers and Yankees in the AL East race. Actually, the slump, albeit of nearly epic proportions, isn't such a surprise. The baseball season is incredibly long, and only the most ardent Boston fan could possibly claim that the averages would never catch up with his precious...
Nonetheless, the myth works well enough in real life, although perhaps not so perfectly as ardent monarchists claim...