Word: ardor
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...Obviously Washington would gladly settle for a neutralist regime based on the Laotian model as a replacement for Lon Nol, but there is little reason to believe the Khmer Rouge would now accept anything less than full power. There is a chance, of course, that nationalists will temper the ardor of the Communists in the insurgent movement. Perhaps the clever Sihanouk will play a larger role than is now anticipated. The Khmer Rouge, which lacks a strong cadre of leaders, may be forced to rely upon the existing bureaucracy. Moreover, the traditional Cambodian hatred of all things Vietnamese may prove...
There is something appropriate about this pubescent ardor for Cher. At 28 she is herself not far removed from the true-believer status of her fans. Indeed, her saving, authentic grace may lie in her ability to admit that the only definition of success she has ever held is stardom. She is a creature totally formed by show business-first by her fantasies about it, then by her precocious immersion in it. She married Sonny, then a record promoter, when...
Backed by the Ankara government and by some 35,000 Turkish soldiers, a separate Turkish-Cypriot homeland has come into being in a blaze of nationalistic ardor. The red Turkish flag with the white crescent and star flutters from minarets, from official buildings, and from the historic St. Hilarion Castle atop the Kyrenia range. On every second building, signs proclaim: "What we have gained by blood we shall build by sweat...
...Rosaline (Estelle Kohler). In no time the lordly abstainers are meditating only on their ladies' beauty and studying how to sneak love letters to them. Irony outraces irony, and the jollity is compounded by a covey of curates, schoolmasters and clowns. The R.S.C. invests the evening with lyricism, ardor and joy. In a superbly articulated performance (no surprise from one of the finest actors alive), Ian Richardson as Berowne sums up Shakespeare's conviction that all Utopian dreams run afoul of human needs, desires and nature, and that life is the tutor of words, not words the master...
...officiating at countless party meetings, mass organizations and the State Council. Most important for his survival, he knew how to maintain a low profile whenever Mao swung China violently leftward. These were dangerous periods for the country's pragmatists, who were vulnerable to the charge of lacking revolutionary ardor. When the radical mood had spent itself and the need for retrenchment became obvious, it was always Chou, with his unparalleled administrative skills and the allegiance of the party bureaucracy, who oversaw the return to normalcy...