Word: ardor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hang-Ups & Ardor. Despite its vast numbers and myriad subspecies, today's youth is most accurately viewed through the campus window: nearly 40% of all American youth go on to higher education,* and more will soon follow...
...jerkins," or when he visualizes Marshal Budenny "galloping all over Africa,/ And I, of course, galloping right after him," the effect is quite other than intended. The image of the dynamic poetic dramaturge fades, to be replaced by that of another poet laureate, Alfred Lord Tennyson, inflamed with patriotic ardor over the breakfast table and dashing off Form! Form! Riflemen Form!-to be published in the Times, please the Queen, and possibly encourage the redcoats...
...guaranteed passage of several controversial Administration proposals, expressed the opposition's reaction in characteristically flamboyant prose last week: "The Administration goes its higgledy-piggledy way; its high priests are no longer the flower of American culture but skilled political salesmen who pursue domestic social programs with the popeyed ardor of a Harpo Marx chasing blondes...
Indeed, the Governor's familiar face and homey presence do not arouse much ardor among the voters. At the Los Angeles County fair in September, as the Governor was trying to galvanize a small audience with the glories of the state park program, hundreds of fairgoers strolled past with hardly a backward look. With a touch of sadness, Pat shouted at them "It's important that you know about this. You put your money in taxes, and this is what we do with it." Though he is trim and tanned and tips the scales at precisely the same...
...Hollywood, where he had just finished a Civil War epic, The Long Ride Home, and a romantic farce co-starring Sandra Dee, Doctor, You've Got to Be Kidding, George was making the rounds - and the columns - with a succession of starlets. Just as it seemed that their ardor had cooled, Lynda abruptly broke off her Hawaiian vacation, and has been making the scene with George ever since. By last week, in fact, there were signs that Lynda's father may have to resign himself to the inevitability of George - even though in private the President, feigning ignorance...