Word: ardor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Danton's Death has somehow struck the fancy of modern revolutionaries in the theatre, was produced in German in Manhattan by Max Reinhardt in 1927. It reveals the "moderate" Danton (Martin Gabel), weary of bloodshed, broken in purpose, fallen in power, propelled toward the guillotine through the fanatical ardor of Robespierre (Vladimir Sokoloff), the Incorruptible. After the knife has fallen, Robespierre's man Friday, Saint-Just (Orson Welles), defends the rigors of revolution in a speech of flame...
When Jewish immigration increased by leaps and bounds, when Jewish leaders proclaimed their expectation of forming a Jewish majority, the Arabs' attitude stiffened. Successive terroristic campaigns were waged, a "holy war" was in progress. Exile, imprisonment, death on the gallows only seemed to increase the crusading ardor of those who believed the Prophet's promise: "Whosoever falls in battle, his sins are forgiven; at the day of judgment his wounds shall be resplendent as vermilion and odoriferous as musk and the loss of his limbs shall be supplied by the wings of angels and cherubims...
...converged on Bennington, Vt., where Bennington College opened its fifth annual Festival of the Modern Dance. In the sprawling white farm buildings which house Vermont's youngest and most experimental college, some 150 acolytes, many of them heads of dance departments in other colleges, leaped and squatted with ardor, preparing for big stage events with which the Festival wall close next month. Present besides High Priestesses Graham, Humphrey and Holm, High Priest Weidman, were portly, dachshund-toting Louis Horst, patriarch of the movement, prim N. Y. Times Dance Critic John Martin, its principal evangelist. While London's ballet...
...other consideration dampened Congressional ardor for legislation like the Celler Bill. N. A. B.'s President Mark Foster Ethridge acutely observed that the State Department would find it easier to explain embarrassing statements on international broadcasts if private broadcasters made them than if they were aired over a Government-owned-&-operated station...
Discouragement, delay, the difficulties of learning English, a sea voyage enlivened by the sight of pirates did not cool Mother Duchesne's ardor for civilizing the "savages" of the New World. The first thing she did when she stepped ashore was kiss the boggy soil of Louisiana. It took her and her four colleagues 40 days to ascend the river to St. Louis. The nuns were placed aft on the steamboat because of the ever-present danger of exploding boilers. The account of Mother Duchesne's work-which did not come to an end until 1852-occupies half...