Word: ardently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...disputed provisions of the Tax Reform Act of 1976 and found that it had produced more reform than almost anyone had expected. The bill, which is likely to be passed by both houses of Congress this week, falls far short of the wholesale rewrite of the tax code that ardent reformers, including Jimmy Carter, demand. It still leaves the code resembling a shapeless coat crazily patterned by holes and patches. But its provisions add up to the most significant changes in tax law since 1969, and they will raise an estimated $1.6 billion of added federal revenue in fiscal...
...worst enemy may turn out to be himself. For one thing, his almost messianic sense of purpose, his Southern populism, his compulsion to serve and his overwhelming desire to be elected could lead him to promise too much to too many?to be, in short, the ardent liberal reformer that Ford will be claiming that he really is. Says Jack Watson, one of Carter's chief aides: "Jimmy is a riskier candidate than Ford because he is so aspirational...
Died. Mark Vishniak, 93, author and TIME'S longtime Sovietologist (1946-58); in Manhattan. A law professor hi Moscow, Vishniak was five times arrested by Czar Nicholas II as an ardent Socialist Revolutionary. In 1917 he helped draw up the electoral laws for the provisional government headed by Alexander Kerensky and, as Vishniak later wrote, served in "the only freely elected Parliament in the history of Russia," which lasted just twelve hours before it was dissolved by Lenin. Escaping from the Bolsheviks, Vishniak fled to Paris and, after the beginning of World...
...hopped onto an island pedestal in the pool. "The photographers were just dying for me to fall in the water, but for that I get paid lots and lots of money," joked Moreno afterward. If she escaped a watery fate, Moreno was less lucky with some of her more ardent fans. "There was a man with a polyester suit and Instamatic camera who just draped himself all over me," she recalled. "I felt like I was being surrounded by a Baggie...
...references in the text to "rough weather" and the like, or the presence of a song like "Blow, blow, thou winter wind." But these are not allusions to the current climate, which should be temperate throughout the play. The most important thing that goes on in Arden is ardent young love and courting (of several kinds), which are hardly abetted by snow on the ground and bare branches in the air. "Men are April when they woo," says the heroine...