Word: ardor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reason the merger ardor may be cooling slightly is simply that business is getting better. Late in December rail car-loadings hit 431,938 cars, topped the year-ago level for the first time in 16 months, although the corresponding week a year ago was particularly depressed by bad weather. Fortnight ago, loadings climbed to 467,699 cars, lagged only 1% below the same week in 1958. Railmen think the year-to-year gap has now been closed, expect carloadings to keep climbing above those of 1958 as the tempo of U.S. business picks...
Speech. "To speak is to dilute one's thought, dissipate one's ardor-in brief, to disperse one's energies when action demands that one concentrate...
...marks Maillol's sculpture and drawing is as fascinating in terms of his life as in regard to his work. Rouault, too, maintained a constant and intensive vision throughout his career, but the difference in temperament here is immense. Maillol, working until 1944 with a turn-of-the-century ardor, seemed to exist in a rapport with nature usually thought of in connection with the highest days of Greece. His sculpture is at once sophisticated and naive. In this sense it represents civilized man at his most refined and inspired, completely without artifice and without the vaguest notion of what...
Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey. With less fanfare than Kennedy, he rolled up 20,000 miles through 18 states. Midwest and Western Democratic gains shifted the balance of political power westward, helped Humphrey because his ardor for rigid farm-price supports is more attractive than Kennedy's fickleness...
...stage set got in the first dig: the houses of old Munich were actually stylized caricatures of the city's sobersided medieval citizenry. Against this background unfolded the ribald tale of Kunrad, a young sorcerer, whose ardor for the virgin Diemut scandalizes the whole town. Derided and humiliated by them. Kunrad takes his revenge by magically extinguishing every fire in Munich, leaving the helpless bluenoses in chilly darkness. Kunrad delivers a 20-minute homily to the chastened Münchners (dramatically cumbersome, but Strauss insisted he had written the opera only for the sake of that speech. Soon...