Word: ardently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quite a prelude to World War III, but the scene at the frontier etween the two nations was nonetheless a disquieting reprise of old cold war showdowns. Ardent nationalists demonstrated, inflammatory editorials issued calls to arms, tanks moved into position, and ships at sea began "strategic maneuvers." Berlin? Czechoslovakia? In fact, the moves and countermoves involved the area around Trieste, on the Yugoslav-Italian border, which until now has been one of the most successfully accommodated (though never finally resolved) East-West disputes...
Some of these stories are mere wisps-a filament of character, a. frisson of nuance. A few are too fanciful by half. What makes the collection very much worth reading is the author's ardent belief in her characters. Paley finds all her people exceptional, and she describes them with a charge of feeling that is unfailingly seductive...
Loud hoots arose from the Tory benches when Wilson tried to explain the distinction he makes between "property development" and "land speculation." Even to many ardent Labor supporters, he seemed to be making a distinction without much of a difference. The row is peculiarly embarrassing to Wilson because land has become a highly emotional issue in Britain. The price of property for housing has trebled since 1969, driving the cost of a decent home beyond the reach of countless thousands of British families. To end speculation, the Labor campaign platform vowed to nationalize land required for housing and school development...
Both boys are right-partly. There is quite a bit of baloney in Grandma's book, but along with such things as an especially treacly view of her husband's disposition and career that all but the most ardent Kennedy fans will find hard to swallow, the reader is offered much nourishment. He learns a good deal, for example, about the frail, "funny little boy" who became President; about J.F.K.'s older sister Rosemary, who was retarded from birth; about that conscientious younger brother Bob; about the hard work that marriage demands-even from the very rich...
...successor, but the leading candidate by far is Energy Czar William E. Simon (the only other names being mentioned are Roy Ash, director of the Office of Management and Budget, and John Dunlop, head of the Cost of Living Council). Simon is both a free-market advocate and an ardent admirer of Shultz, who persuaded him to come to Washington 15 months ago as No. 2 man at Treasury. Simon still nominally holds that post even while running the Federal Energy Office-a job that stands to lose some of its urgency and importance with the lifting of the Arab...