Word: ardente
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...potter of uncommon conscience, Wedgwood supported both the French and American Revolutions, though he well knew that they would hurt his business. An ardent antislaver, Wedgwood sent Ben Franklin his historic medallion showing a chained Negro pleading, "Am I not a man and a brother?" And he became Evolutionist Charles Darwin's grandfather. At Josiah Wedgwood's burial place in the Stoke-on-Trent church, his epitaph reads: he "converted a rude and inconsiderable manufactory into an elegant art and an important part of national commerce." More than that, he annealed common clay with an uncommon love...
...Gaulle has even managed to estrange his most ardent followers in West Germany, including such a strong German "Gaullist" as Bavarian Boss Franz Josef Strauss. Fortnight ago, De Gaulle with great fanfare entertained Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. At the end of the visit, Gromyko professed to be delighted to discover that the French accepted the existence of two Germanys. Though the French mumbled a denial later, the Germans were unconvinced-and an angry Strauss expostulated that "he who today renounces Breslau and Stettin will renounce Leipzig and Magdeburg tomorrow, and quite certainly Berlin the day after tomorrow...
...Bertolt Brecht's first play, written in 1918, and in later life he had no illusions about it. Just prior to his death in 1956, he said: "I admit and I warn you-the play lacks wisdom." What the play has is wildness, chaos, raw youthful exuberance, an ardent desire to shock, and a compulsion to spew up nausea in the accents of lyric delirium. One line sets the tone of the play: "I see the world in a mellow light: it is the Lord God's excrement...
...would prevent a state from rushing through a measure establishing a poll tax of, say, $15? To forestall that temptation, Massachusetts' Democratic Senator Teddy Kennedy tacked onto the voting bill yet another amendment, outlawing poll taxes altogether in elections for state and local offices. The amendment drew the ardent support of a bipartisan group of Northern liberals led by the bill's floor leader, Michigan's Democratic Senator Philip Hart. But when the bill was ready for the Senate floor, the anti-poll-tax proposal ran into the opposition of the very men most instrumental in drawing...
Governor Peabody was contacted and he pledged his support, but only after the election, since he was courting the support of McCann and Rep. John I. Toomey (D-Cam.) then chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee an ardent underpass advocate...