Word: ardently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sleeping Beauty offers a homely advantage to a ballet troupe: there is something in it for everybody. While on tour, A.B.T. switched the various roles around frequently. As Prince Desire, Beauty shows off a young Argentine performer of enormous promise, Julio Bocca, 20. Handsome, ardent, with a big light jump, he gave dramatic strength to the often thankless part. As the first of the Auroras, Susan Jaffe was able to drop much of her cool languor to give a sprightly performance. For one of the Lilac Fairies, MacMillan dipped into the corps to find Jennet Zerbe, 22, a tall, ample...
...ruling, predictably enough, delighted civil rights and women's groups while angering the Reagan Administration and others who have been waging an ardent crusade to roll back affirmative action. Many business groups applauded the decision because it helped clarify the legal status of voluntary programs and is likely to discourage future reverse-discrimination actions...
...Aquino-appointed government officials, however, complain that the private armies often shoot first and ask questions later. It is a measure of the challenge facing Aquino that by giving her generals the tools they say they need to defeat the Communist rebels, she risks alienating some of her most ardent supporters...
Attacks like Avineri's enraged many U.S. Jewish leaders. They felt that Israel should never have exploited an ardent young American Zionist and should now show far more awareness of U.S. feelings. Said Bookbinder bluntly: "Pollard is a criminal found guilty in our system of justice, it's as simple as that. If it was perceived in America that we had come to the defense of Pollard because he's a Jew, our credibility as a Jewish community would be down to zero overnight, and Israel would be the loser." In Washington, the staunchly pro-Israel New Republic called...
...ardent Hart supporter, he said Hart, who is a good writer himself, is concerned with ideas and proposals in his speeches--unlike President Reagan, whom he said has "torn all the substance out of American political discourse...