Word: ardor
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Another of Sadat's problems is to reconcile the Moslem extremism of Saudi Arabia's King Feisal and Libya's Muammar Gaddafi-who last week bitterly attacked his erstwhile Egyptian ally for agreeing to a cease-fire-with the revolutionary ardor of Marxist Arab leaders like Houari Boumedienne of Algeria. In fact, Egypt's leadership hopes that an Arab summit meeting prior to the start of the peace talks in December can be postponed...
Reliably reported: a lovers' tiff. The British press's ardor for prickly Princess Anne is waning as her Nov. 14 marriage to Captain Mark Phillips approaches. Annoyed by the command that servicemen pass the hat for the young couple, newsmen were further rankled by Horsewoman Anne's gibe after she took a fall at the European equestrian championships in Kiev: "Sorry to disappoint but I'm not badly hurt." Not even the special wedding stamp is getting its licks. Cynics note that before the princess would put her best face on it, critical retouching was required...
...site of a rich collection of Bronze Age art, the valley is blocked by snow ten months of the year. Ress traveled there in a Jeep over a goat path, across creaky wooden bridges-in the midst of a rainstorm. If anything could dry up one's ardor for work, it might be covering a drought in India. New Delhi Correspondent William Stewart journeyed 1,000 miles to remote Andhra Pradesh, spent a day in near-100° heat talking to farmers, and most of the night writing. For his troubles, he contracted dysentery -then learned that publication...
They begin giving each other resumes of their lives. He is Jewish, N.Y.U. She is Catholic, Barnard College. He is an ad copywriter who once wrote short stories. She is a devoted but mildly discontented mother of two tots. Since they both approach adultery with the subdued ardor of a visit to the dentist, an enormous burden is placed on the dialogue, which is not saucy enough as banter and not solid enough as humor. Anne and Paul finally do play connubial hooky, but the sheer logistics of an illicit affair soon drive them, with considerable relief, back home...
...because he had a fond underlying assumption that that sun would never set. Temperamentally, Coward is a child of the '20s, that era of wonderfully liberating nonsense. He was one of the first philosophers of "doing your own thing," but lightheartedly and rather gallantly, without the grim puritan ardor of bra burning or the dubious courage of milling about in vast herds...