Word: ardor
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...their part, U.M.W. lawyers will now appeal the union's fine, which Hall reduced to $700,000 after the strike's end. Whatever the final outcome, Judge Hall's success in taming the wildcatters should help to cool the ardor of restive workers whose union contract happens to contain a no-strike clause...
Synoptic Vision. Cavafy possessed that power. With a pagan selection of detail-the gaze of an eye, the tilt of a head -he evokes the ardor of youthful flesh as tunelessly as does a frieze on a Grecian urn. Indeed, Cavafy introduces the shapers of the ancient world-the Ptolemies, Julius Caesar, Marc Antony-as if they were embarking on their adventures this very day. Simultaneously, he moves contemporary people backward into the total stillness of history so that they seem to have been formed in the ruins of Pompeii. Except for Yeats, no modern poet has surpassed Cavafy...
...partly because of a sense of fair play inherited from the medieval chivalric code, partly because assassinating rival monarchs inevitably invited retaliation. In the Italian city states of the Renaissance, of course, the Medicis, Viscontis and Sforzas practiced murder against rivals in politics, love or family quarrels with satanic ardor. The first and possibly the worst was Ezzel-ino da Romano, the 13th century despot of Padua and Verona. "Here for the first time," wrote Historian Jacob Burckhardt, "the attempt was openly made to found a throne by wholesale murder and endless barbarities." Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia), with...
...screen. "I'm acting," she protests, "not playing myself," and friends loyally insist that her occasionally batty behavior is a hype. No one would deny, however, that she hurls herself into her roles with uncommon zeal. Drive, He Said originally got an X rating partly because of the ardor that Black and Co-Star William Tepper showed during one scene in the front seat of a car. After filming a nude scene, Karen can forget to put her robe back on. On one movie set she volunteered to the wife of a costar: "How can you live with such...
...most sought-after experts aboard was Dr. Georges M. Halpern, vice president of France's Société de Gastronomie Médicale, who was perhaps the slimmest man aboard. One of his secrets, he confided, is to eat and make love with equal ardor; although figures differ, Halpern averred that sex on the average consumes 100 calories per minute. On disembarking with his Japanese wife, le docteur observed happily that in the course of the cruise he had shed one pound...