Word: ardently
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Jane Alpert, an honors graduate of Swarthmore and ardent Women's Liberationist, argued that the copped plea was not a copout. "The enemy would have been sitting in judgment and using its own rules," she said. "It wasn't a political thing-just a purely pragmatic choice on our part...
Died. Paulina Z. Zhemchozina, 76, wife of former Premier and Foreign Minister Vyacheslav M. Molotov; of cancer; in Moscow. As ardent a Communist as her husband, she climbed the Soviet bureaucracy, first as director of a perfume factory, later as head of the cosmetics trust. In 1939, she became one of the first women to achieve Cabinet rank as Minister of Fisheries. She fell into disfavor with Stalin, lost her job and was exiled for a time-even though her husband remained one of the dictator's most important henchmen...
...sure, both actions are symbolic. A decision made by the President, without the advice, consent, of even knowledge of Cabinet or Congress, will not be affected by even the most ardent lobbying. The Harvard Corporation is unlikely to take the requested act of civil disobedience of withholding tax dollars from the government. Yet symbols do matter, in so for as they convey the desperation, and the sense of political impotence, felt by the faculty of the Graduate School of Education...
...uncouth lot, mostly representative scum of the urban slums, yet their individual characters and common humanity are finely delineated by the superb Dublin Abbey Theater players. As the young Behan, Frank Grimes is one of those actors who make reviewers long for new adjectives of praise. He is evocative, ardent and totally winning. As the older Behan, Niall Toibin looks uncannily like the man he is playing, and his Gaelic way with a bawdy tune could set a barroom on the roar...
Aristocratic Disdain. The Rt. Hon. Bertrand Arthur William Russell, third Earl Russell, was born into a tradition of aristocratic disdain for what the neighbors might say, if not with an active desire to epater le bourgeois. His grandfather, the first earl, was Prime Minister of England. His parents were ardent freethinkers and campaigners for women's rights. Bertie, considered frail, was educated at home, and there was much coming and going of tutors...