Word: ardor
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Throughout the play Friedman lances pet hates with an ardor so indiscriminate as to seem bracingly honest. The air is unfogged by any pious cant about brotherly love as he tongue-twits Jews, Negroes, Babbitts, Frenchmen, Chinese, Yugoslavs, white liberals, black militants, wives, husbands, thieves and psychiatrists. From this last and presumably lowest shelf of humanity, the playwright produces a fatuously brain-shrunk specimen who brings his patient-paramour to the chateau. She in turn treats Manhattan's theatergoers to the sight of their first topless actress, but it must ungallantly be recorded that the lady's mammaries...
...Reality-deep, significant reality-is the characteristic of this book." Nothing that deeply touched Charlotte -the terrible boarding school where her sisters died, her woes as a governess, the tests of love-is absent from Jane Eyre. If Charlotte's flaw was excessive romanticism, her strength was the ardor with which she recorded her bitter experiences...
...International Telephone & Telegraph has encountered stiff Justice Department opposition to its proposed merger with American Broadcasting Co. But that has failed to dampen ITT's ardor for picking up other corporations. Its latest morsel: Rayonier Inc., a $171 million-a-year manufacturer of pulp products. The communications giant also has a line out in hopes of acquiring Western Power & Gas Co., a public utility operating in 13 states from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic. - General Telephone & Electronics Corp., the nation's largest independent telephone system, stood to get even larger by agreeing to a $145 million stock...
Miss Tucci spends much of her time in an azure pants-suit, besmirched with the dirt she has used to bury her rotting brother. She projects artfully the ardor of the 19-year-old idealistic girl, one conscious of her age and nostalgic for her childhood ("Oh, it's just that I'm a little young still for what I have to go through."). And when she sits down and looks out into the audience, her beautifully sculptured expression sends one's mind back to thoughts of Greta Garbo. Her Antigone is proud and courageous and noble. But instead...
...occasions can be read in the titles: A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment; In My Solitary Hours in My Dear Husband His Absence; Before the Birth of One of Her Children. To her husband there are outpourings of diffident ardor: "My head, my heart, mine eyes, nay, more." His business trips rankled...