Word: ardor
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Latin is supposedly dead: half the country's public high school youngsters studied it in 1900; only 6.9% did in 1955. But those for whom it is a living language have increased their ardor. The Junior Classical League, which had 11,000 members ten years ago, now has 74,634, and chapters in 46 states. Some 475,000 high school students will take Latin this year, and classicists say that the number would double if there were enough teachers to go around...
...life's sweet-scented morning," and concluding with the peaceful resignation of "The Farewell" ("My heart is still and waits for its deliverance"). Walter's intense performance last week wonderfully illuminated the score's leafy detail, and the orchestra under his baton played with an ardor and mellow tone it rarely displays. As for Contralto Forrester (ably joined by Tenor Richard Lewis), her velvet-piled voice floated over the orchestra with effortless power, adapting itself in a remarkable range of nuances to the work's shadow-flittery moods...
...smooth and resonant, his acting a marvel of revealing, reflex-quick responses to the camera's eye. In one of the opera's musical high points, the Act I love duet of Giovanni and Zerlina (Soprano Judith Raskin), Siepi gave his mahogany tones a range of inflections-ardor, indignation, surprise-that told the viewer in the twist of a phrase everything about the don he needed to know. Less effective than Siepi dramatically, Negro Soprano Leontyne Price sang the role of Donna Anna in a richly textured voice, with dead-sure marksmanship and apparent power to spare...
...through a strong neo-orthodox phase: "I took to neo-orthodoxy the way Methodists take to organization." The theology of Niebuhr and Barth "rescued me from the tranquilizing theory of inevitable evolutionary progress and restored the sense of God's majesty. But as the years went by, my ardor was cooled by the tendency of so many of the brethren to state extreme positions in order to be noticed. A professor of mine once commented that his definition of a good religious educator was a fellow who had had a bad case of John Dewey and gotten over...
...port of Aden itself, Arab nationalist ardor still runs high. A total of 1,800 oil workers are out on a strike called by the local Arab Trades Union Congress. Aden's port workers may still throb to Nasser's broadcasts, but it is the now quiescent Imam whom the British worry about. He is the chief threat to the garrison post from which they watch over their Persian Gulf oil interests. Reassured, the British are now preparing to create a second federation in Aden's even emptier Eastern Protectorate, where the British-run Iraq Petroleum...