Word: ardently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unhappy lover of an elusive sylph (Natalia Makarova) with something like delicacy and restraint. In Anton Dolin's Variations for Four, he stole the show with the sheer, pantherish abandon of his movements. As the young seducer in Antony Tudor's Pillar of Fire, he was appropriately ardent. Last week, in Fokine's Le Spectre de la Rose, he was a little too effeminate as the Spirit of the Rose (not helped by a lurid pink, rose-petaled body stocking) but danced with lyrical grace...
...isolationist mood that McGovern's defense policies and even his acceptance theme, "Come home, America," suggest. Perhaps all of the conventional political blocs still wield decisive electoral power-and are moving away from the Democratic Party. Or, even if McGovern is riding a movement as pervasive as his ardent advisers envision, the national electorate could find him inadequate to lead...
Except for an ardent few, Americans have traditionally looked upon long hikes as a slow form of torture inflicted upon Boy Scouts and Army infantrymen. That view seems to be changing. With 20-to 40-lb. packs strapped to their backs, millions of nature lovers are now taking to the trails. Many stick to the neighboring countryside, but some groups are venturing so far into the wilderness that they carry homing pigeons to send back in case of trouble. (One feathered courier brought back news of a forest fire last year.) Other backpackers boldly tackle the four-month trek from...
...Sally Peil, 22, is a West Georgia College senior who went to Miami Beach as a delegate. Like her merchant parents, Sally was an ardent Nixon supporter four years ago. "The other day," she says, "I told my mother I've never been so disappointed with anything in my life as Nixon. She almost cried. She thinks I'm turning into a Communist." Since she became a politician, she says, "I'm watching every news program on TV, reading the papers every day." One problem after her election, Sally notes, is that...
...city of light becoming the city of blight? Not really. The ardent reaction is partly due to the fact that Paris remained virtually unchanged for half a century. Unlike Berlin or London, it escaped bombing during World War II and did not have to be rebuilt. Nor are Parisians like American city dwellers, who see constant demolition and construction as necessary signs of economic health. Paris remained recognizably the place described by Proust, Hemingway and Fitzgerald-stylish, intimate and lovely. That was part of its charm, and any change thus comes as a shock...