Word: ardente
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Atmosphere Burden. Other ardent esthetes joined in peppering Italy's press with antiquarian indignation. But instead of inciting their fellow countrymen to mass revolt, Cederna and his followers succeeded only in setting most Italians to wondering just how far a nation could go in preserving a dead heritage. "The tribute we Romans pay to the past is rapidly becoming an almost unbearable burden," wrote one Italian professor. "Our narrow old streets keep traffic down to a snail's pace, but any thought of widening them is quashed by the magical words, 'historical atmosphere.'" A suggestion...
...ardent admirer of Hitler, he did not have to borrow Nazi racist ideas; he already had them. In 1941 he proclaimed: "One of the cornerstones of the British Empire is equal rights for everybody irrespective of color or smell. The other cornerstone is British-Jewish capitalism." Later he amplified his remarks to denounce "the detestable British-Jewish and liberal democratic system which we have in our country today." In recent weeks he has been openly critical of Malan's failure to make effective many of the stricter apartheid (segregation) measures. Said Strydom: "The old man is holding...
Even such an ardent evangelist as Sears, Roebuck's Chairman Theodore Houser, whose company is noted for its huge profit-sharing payoffs, admits that the plan will work no wonders "in a business where a major part of the cost of the product is represented by the cost of raw materials." Furthermore, says Houser, profit-sharing "is not the first step in building a program of sound employee relations, but the last step [after a company] can find nothing else...
...Holy See early this month appointed an archbishop coadjutor for the archdiocese of Seville with rights and functions equal to Segura's and with the "right of succession.'' He is affable, 50-year-old José Maria Bueno y Monreal, former bishop of Vitoria and an ardent supporter of Franco...
...other prominent New York casualty was Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., who lost his race for attorney-general by about 170,000 votes. Undoubtedly he had something less than an ardent desire to be attorney-general of the state and probably would have been rather distressed at the prospect of actually serving. His motives in taking the nomination seem to have had a slight touch of Machiavellianism. He apparently accepted it with the expectation that even if the whole ticket lost, he could decisively outrun the other Democratic candidates and so win recognition as the strongest vote-getter in the state...