Word: ardente
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...Over?" His appointment list was crammed. The President was very available, from breakfast sessions with the Democratic leaders of Congress to moonlight meetings with the airline strike fact-finding commission. He was especially attentive to Congressmen, many of whom were dazzled by the ardent courtship. When Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg hurried to the Oval Room with the airlines' strike settlement in his dispatch case (see BUSINESS), Kennedy greeted him with a broad grin and a question: "Is it over?" By personally announcing that it was, he signaled that he intends to wade deep into national labor controversies...
Economic experts of both parties are agreed that, long-range, the U.S. economy needs nothing so much as wholesale tax reform. The drive for reform has been given a new push by President Kennedy's appointment of three of the most ardent reformers to three of the Administration's top economic posts...
...Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire. "Only two people in the hall were impressed by the music," he recalls. "One was a very unimportant young man. Me. The other was Giacomo Puccini." Dallapiccola, who for a time composed in a largely traditional, tonal style (he has always been an ardent Wagner fan), gradually started learning twelve-tone technique, teaching himself by studying Schoenberg's scores. "But in those days nobody appreciated my music," and he and his wife were sometimes reduced to a diet of water and one roll...
...Bern as Ambassador to Switzerland, although the Swiss have made it clear that they are less than pleased. Financier, sportsman, onetime member of the Republican national finance committee, Palm Beach neighbor and old friend of Jack and Jackie Kennedy. Smith was Ambassador to Cuba from 1957 to 1959. An ardent supporter of ex-Strongman Fulgencio Batista, Smith early recognized Fidel Castro as a pro-Communist fanatic but underestimated the strength and public support of Castro's rebel band-an oversight that helped fan the smoldering embers of Cuba's anti-Americanism. Smith left Yale after two years, married...
...peace corps in practice is going to fulfill any of its great promise in principle, it must be something more than the good will of several thousand ardent young Americans. With or without draft exemption, the manpower is probably available and willing to serve, but serious thought is required to determine how it can best be put to use. What kind of peace corps the Kennedy Administration wants, then, is much more important than whether the participants will be granted exemption or deferment from the draft, for youth service per se will solve no problems for the underdeveloped nations...