Word: ardor
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When Bellucci speaks of acting, he treats it with the reverence and ardor of a missionary. "The expectations and hopes an audience has are sort of the hopes of the whole human race," he says. "You just can't let them down. That's the great thing about playing a lead role--you're so much involved in the fate of the show that you just push and push and before you know it, you're in this crazy realm where you're really acting. Acting is in that empyrean when it's that good. It's totally religious...
...Story of Civilization was planned as a five-volume, 25-year project, but the author underestimated his own ardor and longevity. The series expanded, filling the Durants' hours from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., seven days a week. After Volume V came Will's announcement, at 69, that "the imminence of senility" would bring the work to an end with Volume VII. But it was only at age 90, after Volume XI-The Age of Napoleon-that Durant retired. "The ego is willing," he said, "but the machine cannot...
...organizations captured the nation's conscience and won an end to segregation in public accommodations, besides sweeping legal guarantees of civil rights and voting rights. Yet the movement has seen a sharp decline in political influence since the Reagan Administration took office, as well as a cooling of ardor for civil rights issues among the nation's white majority. As the Rev. Joseph Lowery, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, observes: "Many of our allies in the 1960s now no longer offer support. Some are now among the most vicious opponents of affirmative action...
...manipulation of the clay was by no means a metaphor. One of his friends recorded a conversation with Rodin in his old age, as the sculptor talked about an antique copy of the Venus di Medici that stood in his studio: "He spoke in a low voice, with the ardor of a devotee, bending before the marble as if he loved it. 'It is truly flesh!' he said, and beaming, he added: 'You would think it moulded by kisses and caresses!' Then, suddenly, laying his hands upon the statue: 'You almost expect, when you touch...
...rapees, the heroines of paperback romances, were responsible for sales upwards of $100 million in 1980 -representing over one-fourth of mass-market softcover volumes. This year is expected to be even bigger. As gothics and antebellum adventures fade, the "contemporaries," as the trade labels them, are becoming the ardor of the day. Says Dell Vice President Ross Claiborne: "It's a license to print money." The license requires a plucky heroine up against heartrending odds (job problems; the other woman). Object: the tycoon or professional of her choice (see box). Unlike TV soaps or racier novels, the romances...