Word: fervent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fervent admirer of Signor Pavarotti's voice and technique, but I find it unfortunate that you referred to Renata Scotto in such a negative manner. In the televised La Gioconda. Scotto, singing magically, was the full embodiment of opera as drama, intense, heartbreaking and constantly exciting...
...Mass on Logan Circle, he deplored sexual "laxity" but put his remarks in a context of freedom, which he said must not "be seen as a pretext for moral anarchy" but can be truly enjoyed only by those who have "respect for the truth." The Philadelphia crowds were as fervent as any in the U.S. and, as everywhere, included many non-Catholics, who found the Pontiff far more than a touring curiosity. Lois Kukcinovich, a pianist at the New Generation of Disciples of Christ Church in Philadelphia, slept Wednesday night with her clothes on so that she could...
...words, but a journey to promote the President's energy program. At every stop, while the calliope tooted God Bless America, Carter preached a new energy ethic, in simplistic terms. Saving energy, he insisted over and over, is "exciting" and "enjoyable," not "inconvenient" or "painful." In folksy, fervent lectures, he urged people to insulate their houses, drive less, observe the 55-m.p.h. speed limit, join car pools...
...really be that good sex depends on some degree of hostility? Even the master's most fervent disciples were not quite able to accept that unpalatable idea; nor would a good many psychiatrists and psychologists-let alone ordinary people with healthy and gentle sex lives-today. But lately some researchers have been edging in Freud's direction. Indeed, the purported links between sex and aggression -from love bites to rape-are increasing fare in the social sciences. Psychologist and Sex Researcher C.A. Tripp argues that for both men and women some conflict is important to sex; without...
...peculiar that in the name of diversity and intellectual freedom the teaching fellows have objected to the idealism of students. It is my fervent hope that these teachers of American political theory will not silence the politics of morality in the student body. Lena Zezulin '76 Resident tutor, Mather House