Word: ardently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Supporters of amnesty were no less ardent. Former Alaska Senator Ernest Gruening received a standing ovation from the largely proamnesty gallery when he demanded that the Government apologize to the men who refused to go to war. They should be granted immediate, unconditional amnesty, he said, with a "declaration of appreciation for their decency and humanitarianism. Their deserting was infinitely preferable to continuing as killers and maimers of a people against whom the U.S. had no grievance whatever." Spectators were visibly moved when Peg Mullen, whose son was killed in Viet Nam four years ago, asked: "What difference is there...
Last Tango presents sex without a disguise, and this scares off an audience. Even Pauline Kael, the most ardent defender of the film, was too busy figuring out things like whether Bernardo Bertolucci had made the first truly erotic film to explain her emotional reaction. The way audiences and other critics talked about the film suggests that people still have trouble thinking about their emotional reactions to cinema sex. Perhaps the emotions Last Tango in Paris elicited were too subtle to allow clear thoughts. More likely it's just that a moviegoer has a harder time saying "I was aroused...
...sights and sounds were deceptive. For both Nixon and his most ardent defenders, the occasion was, properly enough, a performance. After the initial ceremonial greeting, the applause came almost entirely from the Republican side of the House chamber. It was repeatedly led by a shouting group of cheerleaders at the rear of the G.O.P. ranks, while the Democrats generally listened in silence. Twice, standing ovations were precipitated by a justifiably partisan gallery observer: Pat Nixon.-She rose, was followed by other members of the First Family and close aides, and the movement then spread to the Republican side...
...improved outlook prodded the Senate to scuttle temporarily the Emergency Energy Act, which would have given President Nixon authority to ration gasoline. An odd political alliance-Democratic liberals, Republican conservatives and ardent environmentalists-voted decisively to send the bill back to a House-Senate conference committee. This week the conference committee will consider several possible revisions to the bill, including the substitution of a plan to roll back some domestic oil prices for its controversial provision to curb windfall profits...
...power is by developing large and vocal followings of students. This can be done by teaching excellently, being a through iconoclast, and (e.g.) going drinking with the students. Although the radical professors have failed in their bids for some influence in the department, they have certainly succeeded in gaining ardent personal followers, perhaps as many as one third of the graduate students. At the visiting committee meeting one graduate student declared that the struggle for radicalism at Harvard had to be carried on for the sake of radical Professor Samuel Bowles, who was denied tenure last year. Her emotional appeal...