Word: ardently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ardent devotee of the virtues of mesquite [March 1]. The aroma given off by this burning shrub is a little scent of heaven. If you have never had a steak char-broiled over an open mesquite fire, you haven't lived. And if you have never had soup made from the bones of that broiled steak, you really haven't lived...
...that's not how everyone sees it. For every Ely convert, there has been an ardent critic, and almost all of the latter are politically liberal. One of Ely's sharpest critics, law professor Richard Parker, argues that his colleague's focus on process alone--and not fundamental rights--"is grossly middle of the road and insensitive to class distinctions." Democracy and Distrust, Parker has written is just "an apology" for the upper-middle class polity that is America...
...buoyant career had one bleak period: as deputy chief of the U.S. mission in Cambodia from 1971 to 1974, he helped preside over the collapse of the U.S.-supported government in Phnom Penh. Now, in his Latin America post, Enders foresees similar turmoil. An ardent believer in the domino theory, he envisions much of Central America as nearly ready to topple to leftists...
...doctrine of the separation of I powers," wrote Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis in Myers vs. United States, "was adopted ... not to promote efficiency, but to preclude the exercise of arbitrary power. The purpose was ... to save the people from autocracy." His ardent disciple Felix Frankfurter, "half brother-half son," as Brandeis characterized him, agreed in his personal diary: "When a priest enters a monastery, he must leave ... all sorts of worldly desires behind him. And this court has no excuse for being unless it's a monastery...
...must disclose a new order of experience; both could , describe exalted states and epiphianies of the Geist, the spirit. Anything less than that was not worth I having. Being a Russian, Kanmdinsky had been formed by the tradition of the religious icon. But he was also a Theosophist, an ardent follower of one of the most influential gurus of the day, Mme. Blavatsky, and the cultural centers of Europe, including Munich, were as full of odd parareligious cults then as California is now. It was Mme. Blavatsky's opinion that before long the material world would vanish, leaving behind...