Word: ardente
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That may not be enough to please the new Europe's more ardent advocates. But given the Continent's past -its dreadful wars, its fierce rivalries -the arrival of "the European idea" is unquestionably one of the signal events of the decade...
Jane came on flanked grimly by Delphine Seyrig-an ardent liberation-ist-and American Nancy Ellen Dowd, a part-time editor and Jane's full-time ideologue for women's rights-the sort of girl who goes around flashing her well-fingered copy of Ellen Frankfort's Vaginal Politics. Jane suggested that Nancy should be hired by the movie company. She was, at $350 a week...
...demands mere perfection from a cast, gets very nearly that here. He has curbed Gingold's hammy excesses, lit up the sexy enchantress in Johns, and released in Cariou a presence, as well as a voice, that marks him for the top of the U.S. musical stage. Ardent admirers of Prince's Company and Follies may be startled and a trifle dismayed that he has devoted his formidable skill and inventive energy to what is basically a bittersweet operetta. But then, the only predictable thing about Hal Prince is that whatever he does is the best...
...Real-life Latin lovers do not much resemble their ardent movie counterparts. That is the principal conclusion to be drawn from a survey of 1,056 Italian women by Lieta Harrison, a Sicilian writer. Harrison interviewed equal numbers of mothers and their married daughters and found the generations in agreement that "Italian men are disappointing as lovers and overbearing as husbands." One Milanese wife complained that her husband "has no passion," while a Roman wife described her spouse as "uninspiring." More than one-fourth of the wives charged that their husbands had committed adultery-and many of the younger women...
...arias with the omnipresent Shaw in the Speaker's chair. Behind it all is Shaw's master paradox: that hell is the kind of heaven most people crave, with the devil as a genial host offering comfort and the best of company. But heaven is for the ardent, soldierly few, driven by divine discontent and the life force, who see man only as an unending bridge to his better self...