Word: ardor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Democrats were outraged at what they considered to be Halleck's betrayal. Majority Leader Carl Albert charged that the G.O.P. was staging a sitdown strike. A White House aide, with more ardor than accuracy, said the whole affair was "an attempt by the Midwest isolationist wing of the Republican Party, headed by Mr. Halleck, to seize control of the party and impose its will on the foreign policy of the United States." President Johnson delayed his Christmas trip back to Texas, wrote in a memorandum to Speaker McCormack: "It is not difficult to imagine the reaction of the rest...
...warning that the Communists could create new dangers with unpredictable and perilous speed, hinted that the array of problems facing Russia may make it far easier for the West to reach agreements with the Reds. The problems include the deeply significant rift with Red China, the slackening of revolutionary ardor at home, and the Soviet Union's growing domestic economic troubles...
...Ophelia has men in her madness. In her last scene, she flings her dress up over her head with sexual ardor before a group of soldiers. "This vivid contrast to her initial purity," says Zeffirelli, "shows that in the mind of every middle-class well-bred girl the thought of sex exists in its wildest form...
...Britten found himself still best described by two praiseful paradoxes. Though he has gained immensely in intellectual force over the years, he has lost none of his youthful high spirits and originality. And though his music is unmistakably the work of a foursquare Englishman, it is rich with the ardor of a dedicated citizen of the world...
Western critics have already begun to cool their original ardor for new Soviet verse and lately have begun to grumble that Evtushenko and Voznesensky have neither read T.S. Eliot nor profited by exposure to the likes of William Carlos Williams. The complaint is true, but beside the point. Voznesensky and Evtushenko invite useful comparison not with the sophisticated Western poets of today but with Carl Sandburg singing of the Western plains or the chest-thumping celebrations of Walt Whitman. Like Sandburg, and like the U.S. folk singers who make up rhymes for the freedom riders, the new Soviet poets tend...