Word: ardor
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...wildly bravoed climax by joining Metropolitan Opera Star Licia Albanese in a duet from Don Giovanni and smothering her with kisses as a reward for "carrying" him. "As Don Juan," appraised the New York Times, "Mr. Buitoni made up for the lack of power in his singing with the ardor necessary for the role...
...refused to make peace with Tito. Peking fumed when Khrushchev, in 1958, suggested a summit meeting without inviting the Red Chinese. Peking's much-publicized opposition to Khrushchev's "peaceful coexistence" line has several facets. At home, this almost middle-class slogan threatens to dampen the revolutionary ardor Peking needs to justify the sacrifices of its own people. On the world scene, Red China would presumably like to provoke more local wars with the "capitalist-imperialist" enemy, even at the risk of a major conflict-since in Peking's view, war is inevitable anyway...
...elusive personality of Harold Macmillan, a fellow member of London's Bucks Club, who granted him a rare two-hour interview. In a revealing passage the author says that the Prime Minister talked "about the glow and throb of the England that was, the gallantry and peculiar innocent ardor, valor, of those lost, silken quivering days, and how a whole generation was cut off, sacrificed, exterminated...
What Shakespeare did work at creating is the romantic, sunny gaeity that pervades the fairy-tale forest of Arden (which is only one phoneme away from both Eden and ardor). At Stratford, currently, the idyllic glow is enhanced by Robert O'Hearn's scenery, Tharon Musser's lighting, and some of David Amram's music...
...lift the sense of doom, Author Uris relies not on comic but on sensual relief. Andrei carries on a years-long affair with a Polish Catholic girl of disconcertingly bobby-soxish ardor ("Isn't he yummy?"). And the grand passion of the book involves a Jewish mother of two and an Italo-American journalist who deices her frigidity. Throughout, Uris' dialogue conjures up hours of bad movie time...