Word: ardor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Four Tranquilizers. Then, unaccountably, his religious ardor changed. He gave up his studies at the Bible college. "Minnie," he said to a friend, "I don't know what the Lord wants me to do. I don't know where he wants me to go, but I wish he'd hurry. I'm raring to go." He consulted psychiatrists, and one tried him out on four different kinds of tranquilizers, finally put him on Prozine (dosage: three to four pills per day). For a few months he seemed to be in fine spirits; he bought...
...mind with a critical spirit and a habit of analytical thinking. Faith in divine revelation was succeeded by belief in individual experience. The supernatural was discarded in favor of the natural. Acceptance of authority changed to defiance of authority. Reverence for king and church was transformed into an impassioned ardor for "liberty" and "the rights of the individual." A new element was in the air: doubt. The Age of Reason had unbolted one of the doors of intellectual history. From that time on, man has had to sit in the chilling and bracing draft of an open mind...
Many a broker tries to caution his clients about indiscriminate buying of new issues, but finds it hard to cool their ardor. If he advises a client not to buy, the client often goes off to another broker or comes back a week or two later to complain that the stock he had been told was "overpriced" has risen another 10 points...
Probity with Ardor. As the years went by, Ingres became a querulous, touchy man. so sensitive that his wife would shield his eyes with a shawl to keep him from seeing a deformed beggar in the street. For all his crotchets, Ingres remained true to himself. "Drawing is the probity of art." he said, and he would make as many as 100 sketches before deciding how to place a single arm in a painting. Though he turned out his share of pretentious failures, he was always the master of composition. And despite his apparent indifference to color, such canvases...
Though he insisted that he was primarily "a painter of history," he was at his best when painting the individual. His portraits were the work of a man who could lay bare the heart of another. His women bathers, as Baudelaire observed, were painted "with the ardor of a lover." They were creatures from a far-off world, and however dimly lit their flesh or well-ordered their surroundings, they told much about their creator...