Word: ardente
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...uncouth lot, mostly representative scum of the urban slums, yet their individual characters and common humanity are finely delineated by the superb Dublin Abbey Theater players. As the young Behan, Frank Grimes is one of those actors who make reviewers long for new adjectives of praise. He is evocative, ardent and totally winning. As the older Behan, Niall Toibin looks uncannily like the man he is playing, and his Gaelic way with a bawdy tune could set a barroom on the roar...
Aristocratic Disdain. The Rt. Hon. Bertrand Arthur William Russell, third Earl Russell, was born into a tradition of aristocratic disdain for what the neighbors might say, if not with an active desire to epater le bourgeois. His grandfather, the first earl, was Prime Minister of England. His parents were ardent freethinkers and campaigners for women's rights. Bertie, considered frail, was educated at home, and there was much coming and going of tutors...
...from the previous day. Several greeted me as if we were old friends. One fifty-year-old woman, somewhat reminiscent of Bette Davis in Apple Annie, sat down behind me in line. She was willing to talk to anyone and everyone about her many experiences at the trial. An ardent follower of the defendants, she summed up the whole business as "a bunch of bullshit...
...declining quality of life. Last week he addressed 10,000 people at Northwestern University, where young activists staged the first of a series of major environmental teach-ins that will climax in a nationwide teach-in on April 22. In varying degrees, the once sheltered ecologists have become ardent advocates of seemingly radical views. They sometimes sound like new Jeremiahs. They do not hesitate to predict the end of the world, or at least the end of a life with quality. Yet they hold out hope too. "We are in a period of grace," says Commoner. "We have the time?...
...ARDENT anti-aristocrat in Eliot House is a great supporter of Harvard's final clubs. The clubs. he insists, are a public service because "they keep the damn preppies out of everyone's hair...