Word: ardor
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...York City serve to remind us that race hatred is ready to bubble up anywhere, but the fact that the nation almost universally responded to Howard Beach as a disgrace and an outrage suggests how much progress, not how little, the ideal of equality has made. Thanks to the ardor of three administrations, the necessary civil rights laws are in place and enforceable, and the nonlegalistic thinking about social justice has advanced immeasurably. Any Jew, Hispanic or Asian American looking back uncomfortably to life in the 1950s cannot help seeing the 1980s as brighter, whatever the residual pains. Women lead...
...Dead was playing at the only movie house in Ottawa, Kans., when Gary Hart came home again last week. But it was fitting. Six weeks after Hart burst back into the Democratic race, the surge of excitement has subsided. Even in Ottawa, where he was born and raised, the ardor has cooled. Only a few hours before his nephew was to appear before the local chamber of commerce, not even Uncle Ralph Hartpence could resist telling a Gary-and-Donna joke...
...Claudia Draper (Barbra Streisand), love is felonious assault, and she has the open wounds to prove it. Her mother's plaintive "I love you" may be a threat or a curse. Her stepfather's caress may have been foreplay to child abuse. Her ex-husband's ardor may have sheathed sexual brutality. Indeed, the smothering affections of all people may have driven Claudia nuts. That is why she sits edgily in a New York City courtroom, at a hearing to determine if she is competent to stand trial on a manslaughter charge. Claudia is a $500-an- hour call girl...
...flat. They know their agents can give them just as short shrift by long distance. Perhaps a country visit will rescue their faith in the universe's orderliness. Well, they have reckoned without the rain, mud and chill. Or the bull in a neighbor's field. Or the queenly ardor of Withnail's Uncle Monty (a sweetly mad Richard Griffiths), who turns up to pursue his hopeless passion for "and I." Somehow, Wordsworth failed to mention these inconveniences...
...divine intercessors. Sunni imams mainly conduct community prayers. Each Sunni (from sunna, "the tradition of the Prophet") believes he can have a direct relationship with God. While the Sunnis scorn emotional outbursts and engage in private, meditative piety, Shi'ites are more likely to indulge in displays of religious ardor. Indeed, the Sunnis, who consider themselves the orthodoxy, did not accept Shi'ism as a legitimate school of Islam until...