Word: ardors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Colgan doesn't care two straws about the fate of Ireland when she urges Madden into the insurgent ranks; she just wants him to keep an eye on her adolescent son, who has been swept off his silly feet by patriotic ardor. And when the rebel song rings...
...novel based on this provocative fragment of history, French moviemakers have put together a masterly picture. Subtly but forcefully, with compassion, humor and a spirituality that never grows sanctimonious, it explores the struggle within the layman-priest (Pierre Fresnay) and the clash between the impulsive religious ardor of the islanders and the authority of a church jealous of its sacred functions...
...Angeles-born Soprano Ann Ayars looked and sounded well in the part of the loving, pleasure-mad, 18th Century Manon. What she lacked in artfulness, her gallant and unhappy lover made up in charm and ardor. As the Chevalier des Grieux, young (27) Philadelphia-born Tenor David Poleri turned out to be one of the finds of the season. Laszlo Halasz, director of City Opera, heard Poleri last fall on a Chicago radio show. Handsome Poleri sang Des Grieux as if he had learned it straight from Caruso; his voice, less powerful and assured, is sweeter, lighter in color...
...Ardor & Conscience. By 1554 Pinto was in Goa again, a wealthy man yearning for home after 17 years. But he had seen much and his conscience was troubled. His adventurer's gusto had always been tempered by suffering and a sense of sin. At just that time the body of St. Francis Xavier was brought to Goa. Xavier had died on a lonely island while on his way to China to convert the Chinese. Profoundly moved, Pinto became a novice in Xavier's order, the Society of Jesus, and determined to return and convert the Japanese. It took...
...outstanding new biography based on six years of digging in old letters and documents, Mrs. Woodham-Smith reveals the real springs of Florence Nightingale's ardor: when she was 16, "voices" assured her of a special call...