Word: ardently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hungarian-born Joseph Szigeti, 50, famed "violinist's violinist" and ardent Benny Goodman fan, is also Jewish...
...Dusen's most ardent pages concern the heroic German Churchmen, Niemöller, Faulhaber and Von Galen, who have defied the Nazis in the name of Christ. Humor has been among their weapons. When Von Galen preached in Münster Cathedral against Nazi doctrines on the family and education, a Brown Shirt cried out that no celibate should talk about such matters. Cried the Bishop to his heckler: "Never will I tolerate any reflection on our beloved Führer...
...Nobilissina Visione" Concert Suite, and Tschaikowsky's "Romeo and Juliet." When works of unquestionable fibre have been given, they have often been thrown, together indiscriminately, as witnessed by another program which boasted of nothing but modern French music by Milhaud, Debussy and Ravel, enough to tire even the most ardent admirer of musical delicacy and impressionism. To date there has not been a single note of Bach or Handel heard in Symphony Hall. Although there seemed to be time enough for two by Shostakovitch and one by Miaskovsky, there was not a single Haydn, and but one Mozart symphony performed...
Next day, everybody was talking at once. Parts of the old Isolationist press were delighted. Said Eleanor ("Cissy") Patterson's Washington Times Herald, on page 1: "Clare Boothe Luce, long considered one of our most ardent internationalists, yesterday came home to roost." Delighted also was the stoutly international, Anglophile New York Herald Tribune, which saw in the speech no Isolationist overtones...
Instead, Wilson was given the title of chief of production-a high-sounding assignment which technically made him responsible for just about the whole U.S. war economy. At the same time many an ardent New Dealer either within the WPB or without it, who has little love for Ferd Eberstadt's tough realism, urged Nelson into checking Eberstadt's growing power. Finally came the current explosion, partly inevitable, partly the result of clashing authorities over which no one could or would assume a firm control. The explosives: the shortage of vital component parts needed in the Navy...