Word: ardor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...girls' colleges, he says, "to French kiss or not to French kiss is usually the question. Keeping the teeth closed becomes the ancient badge of the martyrs who refused to sacrifice to the pagan gods of Rome. She firms her lips and guards her tongue with all the ardor of a convent under siege...
...Ballet, opened with Romeo and Juiet. The company has filmed the ballet with Rudolf Nureyev and Dame Margot Fonteyn, truly the most remarkable pair in the ballet world. Dame Morgot, now 48, dances the role of the 14-year-old Juliet with an unmatchable combination of grace and young ardor. Nureyev has often been likened to the legendary Nijinsky, le Dieu de la Danse, as the Edwardians called him before he went...
...Private Man. Soon after the publication of Life Studies, Lowell and his wife returned to New York City. There his reputation flowered, nourished by each successive collection of poems, including For the Union Dead, and by the ardor of the intellectual Establishment of the Eastern academies, who by general agreement considered him something of a grandee...
...performances emphasized, Bruhn and Nureyev are not really comparable. Bruhn, a mature 38, has polished his classical style to a peak of powerful precision and expressive economy. In the U.S. premiere of his pas de deux for Romeo and Juliet, he evoked muted strains of Romeo's tragic ardor, but the focus was less on his characterization than on the discipline of his whippet leaps and turns and the flawless flow of his carries with Italy's graceful Carla Fracci. Marveled Nureyev: "His technique is too good to be believed...
...with only their spirit for consolation. That spirit is at the heart of the present trouble, for Greece today has not retained much of its ancient legacy of moderation and temperance. The Greeks are a volatile, hotheaded and individualistic people whose political factions fight each other with the fierce ardor of the wars of the ancient city-states. The monarchy, by raising national leadership above the slings and arrows of Greek-style politics, is a needed umbrella in whose shade Greeks of every political stripe from Trotskyites to fascists wrestle for attention and control...