Word: ardentes
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...steps needed to save the environment are well known and feasible, then why are they not taken? In a speech at the conference, Senator Albert Gore of Tennessee, one of the most ardent environmentalists in Congress, explored this crucial question. Excerpts from his remarks...
...about George Bush." Though Bush has taken various positions on the issue over the course of his long political life, he campaigned for the presidency on a staunchly antiabortion platform. Last week he affirmed his commitment to that platform by deciding to keep as Attorney General Dick Thornburgh, an ardent convert to the antiabortion cause...
Both sides are already touting their contenders. The left will unite behind Jesse Jackson, who should be the de facto front-runner for the next three years. But Jackson will not win the nomination. Although most Jackson supporters are ardent, the marginal supporters--myself included--who chose him only because of the mediocrity of the 1988 field will jump ship if offered a more attractive candidate...
...paradox of Sontag is that she is an ardent modernist with the earnestness -- and superabundant energy -- of a Victorian moralist. If she likes to "go faster," it's partly because she has so much to cram in. In August, for instance, she attended the biennial gathering of the writers group PEN International (she is president of PEN's American chapter) in Seoul and managed to infuriate Korean authorities by insistently raising the issue of imprisoned South Korean writers. Late September brought the New York Film Festival premiere of Sarah, a documentary on Sarah Bernhardt that Sontag narrates, and a week...
...ardent modernist with the earnestness -- and energy -- of a Victorian moralist, she' s readying a book on aids, finishing a novel, narrating a documentary. "I love to go faster," she says...