Word: ardor
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...doubtful that popular Queen Frederika, for all the ardor of her feminism, could do much to save the situation. The local bishop was not at all encouraging. "The whole mentality of the country would have to change," he said last week. Added a Greek feminist: "The women of Greece are not yet ready for economic independence. As long as they have to depend on men, they will be at their mercy...
...very Frenchman to talk coexistence with Ho Chi Minh. Sainteny served before the Indo-China war as French Commissioner in Hanoi, and wrote a bitterly anti-U.S., pro-Ho book about it. He was subsequently wounded by an exploding Communist hand grenade, but this did not dim his ardor for Ho, whom he called "the Gandhi of Indo-China...
...dwindling supporters to give them the new line. He mildly praised Mendès' plan for rearming Germany ("infinitely better" than EDC) but thought German rearmament would be difficult to put into effect. "Not that the men in office lack patriotism and personal capability," he said; "the ardor, the worth and vigor of the present Premier are there as proof." De Gaulle insisted that before finally rearming Germany, France should lead negotiations for "a modus vivendi" with Russia. The week's dramas had demonstrated one thing: as of now the French Assembly wants Mend...
...dacha once occupied by Maxim Gorky, to be wined and dined by the Kremlin's biggest wigs. Clad in gleaming white, Premier Malenkov himself strode to the garden to pick a bouquet of purple phlox and red gladioli for Dr. Edith. Some time later he soothed her feminist ardor with the assurance that women in the field of education were "too often overmodest." So many happy vodka toasts were drunk that night that even teetotaling Harry Earnshaw lost count over endless glasses of lemonade...
...Henry Pitney Van Dusen, President of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, placed the Reformed churches squarely in the center of the ecumenical movement, recalled Calvin's own plans for a Protestant federation: "Ardor for the ideal of Christian unity [is] laid as an inescapable obligation upon all those who acknowledge the spiritual lineage of John Calvin...