Word: ardor
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...dogma, and convince themselves that their identification with the oppressed and the damned of the earth makes of them an equally oppressed group, entitled there fore to the tactics of despair. We cannot allow them either to believe that they have a monopoly on moral fervor and political ardor, or to think that their aims (many of which I share) justify their antics...
...farewell performance for the young Red Guards. Within two weeks, thousands of them were on their way to corrective labor, their part in Mao Tse-tung's campaign to revive revolutionary ardor...
THROUGHOUT the summer, prospects have been bleak for civil rights supporters in Congress. Wary Congressmen, watching the swing to the right among the home voters, have lost much of their ardor for further federal civil rights legislation. Those guiding welfare bills through the House watched helplessly as the inevitable budget cuts took alarmingly large chunks out of their appropriations. Then, in June, the bomb fell. Guided by Congressman Jamie Whitten of Mississippi, the House came within inches of saddling an $18 billion HEW bill with a rider that threatened to return school desegregation efforts to the medieval...
...short. Art is long" but "Life is short. Art is shorter." Sibylline Utterances. To move from the coffeehouses to an Old Vic revival of The Three Sisters is like catapulting through time. The production is exquisitely mounted, the acting impeccable. Joan Plowright makes Masha a woman of neurotically vulnerable ardor, and as her lover Vershinin, Robert Stephens is a colonel of spineless charm. And yet by comparison, the new experiments in theater make the play seem greyer, dustier, more sibylline than it used to be-as if the sisters' failure to get to Moscow were paralleled by the play...
Probably not since the Children's Crusade has there been such a combination of revolutionary ardor and disorder. There were Trotskyites with their red flags, anarchists with their black ones, pro-Chinese with Maoist banners. Joining the French student groups were Cuban militants in black berets, El Fatah Arab nationalists, Spanish and Portuguese revolutionaries, Dutch Proves, sympathetic British Leftist students-even an unlikely Arab-Jewish committee of the committed...