Word: ardente
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...Oginga Odinga's nascent opposition party, the Kenya People's Union, have the same phonetic pronunciation-a fact that President Jomo Kenyatta's political songwriters did not overlook during the nation's three-week special election campaign. All through Kikuyuland last month, Jomo's ardent KANU party youth-wingers chanted a 20-verse warning against the abhorrent turncoats of the "chameleon party," punctuating each stanza with guttural cries of "moto, moto, moto!"-meaning "Burn, burn, burn...
...first scene of his first play, The Bald Soprano, it sounds the meaning of all his plays: "The universe is out of control." Better than any other playwright, Ionesco has captured the ludicrous panic that invades modern man in an age of rapidly changing technology. An ardent admirer of the Marx Brothers, Ionesco produces tragic farce by using the proliferation and acceleration of physical objects-much the way that the Marx Brothers in A Night at The Opera piled people and things into a tiny ship's cabin. In The New Tenant, furniture inexorably chokes up every inch...
Johnson brought back from Dallas with him on Nov. 22, 1963, soon won fame of sorts as the President's most ardent public drumbeater ("I sleep each night a little better because Lyndon Johnson is my President") and as a master of purple-hued prose. He is also, it seems, a tolerably knowledgeable history buff, gushed almost as effusively over Historian Thomas Macaulay in last week's Saturday Review as he ever did over Lyndon Johnson...
Later, when Jackie flew to Rome, Spain's Vatican Ambassador Antonio Garrigues y Diaz Canabate, 62, became an ardent seconder...
...rivals or predecessors in independent Viet Nam, he is untouched by Western tradition or training, proudly parochial, untainted by the embrace of the lycée mandarins. Fiercely nationalistic and xenophobic, he dreams of a return to the golden age of the Ly dynasty (1009-1225), composed of those ardent Buddhists who formed Viet Nam's first stable government and, by pushing out Chinese influence, created a Viet Nam for the Vietnamese...