Word: ardor
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...America as another pleasant country on the U.N. roll call, somewhere between Albania and Zimbabwe," said Bush in his convention acceptance speech. Keynoter Thomas Kean, the New Jersey Governor formerly admired for his decency and moderation, accused the Democrats of "pastel patriotism," neatly combining the suggestion of insufficient national ardor with the sexual innuendo of Jeane Kirkpatrick's famous "San Francisco Democrats" phrase...
...middle-aged Walter Mittys, whose images are those of the grandstand and whose own diamond memories ended with youth-league ball more than a quarter-century ago. For all the cliches about baseball being a boy's game played by grown men, we watch and root with ardor because we sense the truth: what happens on the big league diamond is life magnified beyond mortal dimension. Who in his or her daily existence has an experience to equal the champagne-drenched euphoria of a championship team? How can the workaday world match that moment when the last out is recorded...
...would be a Dukakis presidency. The cool, detached Dukakis style is very much the Kennedy School style: both have been criticized for + emphasizing management and competence at the expense of feeling and ideological ardor...
...publications that constituted the company's magazine group. CBS spurned the offer in favor of a rival $680 million leveraged buyout led by the magazine division's head, Peter Diamandis. Since then, Diamandis has unloaded seven magazines for $243 million, but the sales in no way diminished Hachette's ardor for the remaining package. The company paid more than $700 million for the dozen magazines that had sold only a few months earlier for around $400 million...
...Lapham's background and his access to the mighty have given him a privileged perch from which to view the past few decades of U.S. history. He believes he has seen something new, and he is not happy about it: "I think it fair to say that the current ardor of the American faith in money easily surpasses the degrees of intensity achieved by other societies in other times and places...