Word: ardente
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...Freedom. However much the classicists have tried, the collision of jazz idiom and classical technique has been mainly the work of jazzmen. Dave Brubeck has been an ardent explorer of quiet waters, but the classic case of the Juilliard blues afflicts John Lewis, whose fascination with the baroque and the commedia dell' arte has led his Modern Jazz Quartet into music of great cerebration and even greater anemia. Lewis' music often seems too fragile even to be called jazz; but now a new group of jazz composers has arrived with the claim that they are uniquely "serious...
...when teenage girls were called bobby-soxers, a full-blooming record fan was 16 or so. and only by great leaps of the imagination could she convince herself that Frankie was really singing about her. Now she is ten, or even eight, and by twelve she has become an ardent collector of the dollar each. 45-r.p.m. records through which she suffers the painful joy of hearing a dirge for her already disappearing adolescence. Many of the singers and songwriters who churn out 5,000 records a year for her are scarcely older than she is. and they sing right...
...able Finance Minister Morarji Desai, austerity is a way of life. Not only is he a vegetarian and a teetotaler who fasts for a day and a half every week, but he is also a hardheaded fiscal conservative who derides pie-in-the-sky welfare schemes and is an ardent believer in pay-as-you-go financing. Last week Desai presented the Indian Parliament with an austerity budget that will put the entire nation on the Desai standard...
...Ustinov) at 80 is confronted with himself at 60, 40, 20, and even as a baby. The four grown Sams share the stage together, and with all the amusing ironies of hindsight and foreknowledge relive key episodes in their communal life. Sam at 20 (John Horton) is an ardent lyric poet and marathon runner, at 40 (Donald Davis) a disgruntled fictional crafts man of obscure worst-sellers, at 60 (Dennis King) a rich, popular hack novelist and flagging voluptuary. Old Sam is still trying to learn the lesson of his life as the four Sams discuss marriage, mistresses, goals...
With or without the hoopla, Americans have become ardent supporters of museums, attentive readers of art news. Scarcely had Leonardo's Mona Lisa been removed from its shrouding of maroon drapery (which the gallery force had christened "Mona's kimona"), when a courtly ceremony took place in Washington's National Gallery. Italian Chargé d'Affaires Gian Luigi Milesi Ferretti, Chief Justice Earl Warren and Attorney General Robert Kennedy stood before a throng of art enthusiasts to unveil two small paintings on wood illustrating the labors of Hercules by the 15th century Italian painter Pollaiuolo, recently...