Word: ardor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Boston Symphony, no resident chorus, and a budget that might be mistaken for lunch money at the Met, Sarah Caldwell, 38, is gaining a professional reputation as the best opera director in the U.S. Her company can give only one performance each of five productions this season, but her ardor and talent are so deep that everything she does is memorable. Her Lulu last month was a musical triumph for Bos ton, but / Puritani may have been the chef-d'oeuvre of her career...
...driven from Paris to Bordeaux, or in 1891, when Rene Panhard and Emile Levassor placed a German Daimler motor on a chassis and thus created the first true auto. France remained the center of the automotive world until World War I, when the U.S. forged ahead. But the ardor for cars has never dimmed, and with today's prosperity, French automakers sell every car they can build...
...test, and her unsparing, childlike ardor makes this one of her finest performances...
...blends clowns and music and lacerated feet and shrieking nerves to prove that life is a grueling test rather like a 3,000-hour dance marathon. In this strange spectacle that suggests new directions for the U.S. theater, Julie Harris is put to the test, and her inspiring childlike ardor makes this one of her finest performances...
...sadistic ringsiders, feet lacerated, nerves shrieking, body and mind at the breaking point, June has a revelation of self in this unholy place. She finds her courage, she knows she will not break or punk out. The purpose of the play is this epiphany, and in the unsparing childlike ardor of Julie Harris' performance, the moment is as theatrically galvanizing as that of the child Helen Keller learning her first word in sign language...