Word: fervently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most fervent speech...
...tell you a little story first. At home over Christmas I had my ritual fervent fight with my parents to counterpoint our otherwise pleasant time together. In fifteen minutes we managed to hit all the sore points, and finally we got to the war. My parents were urging that I go on into the Army rather than get out in some "dishonorable" way. And then my father said, "Look, you kids seem to think that you're the only ones who hate this war, who think about it every day. You're not. It's a goddamn mess-I know...
...audacious lady was Francoise Parturier, 51, novelist, essayist, fervent feminist and front-page columnist for Le Figaro. When she applied last October, few of the 35 members took her seriously (the Academy has 40 places, but five members have died since last March). Still Maurice Genevoix, the Academy's secretary, declared: "Nothing forbids a woman to become a member. Only once before in the Academy's history, in 1893, did a woman try to be a candidate. And we violated our statutes by refusing...
Neither shellfire nor bombing attack has ever ruffled the musicians of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Whether they wear tails or fatigues, play in air-conditioned concert halls, musty airraid shelters or the hot, windy dust bowl of Mount Scopus, they customarily keep near-perfect measure and make fervent music. Last week the 34-year-old orchestra was shaken by another kind of disturbance. Its ordinarily staid and loyal subscribers, protesting the premiere in Israel of Arnold Schoenberg's twelve-tone Violin Concerto, had tried to get rid of their subscription tickets in droves. Many of those who actually...
Gaddafi's ambition, however, extends far beyond Libya's borders. He wants to succeed Nasser as the dominant Arab voice. A fervent supporter of a "federation" of Egypt, Libya, Sudan and Syria, he has demanded full constitutional unity within three years...