Word: fervently
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...choir ululated and a crowd cheered. Shhhhhh. Chastened whispers reverberated in the hall in anticipation of Bill's great moment. And there he was, a hulking form of a man, graying and hoarse, an individual who had just assumed the most enormous expanse of power, consummating a lifetime's fervent ambitions with the help of a nation's choice. I stared at his face. Such enormous pride and success seemed to well up in his eyes, so much so that he must temporarily have lost sense of his embodiment, his feet, arms, the people in ecstasy round...
...right. He tried to keep peace." Clayton senses an affinity with the indecisive Buchanan because he too is trying to negotiate, without much success, between warring factions within himself: his passion for Genevieve and his guilt toward his discarded children. "I was a fervent supporter of marriage," he notes, "just not of my marriage, my present marriage...
...imagine the fervent ideological objections: planned conversion, like planned anything, would be an "industrial policy," meaning "social engineering" in George Bush's lexicon, meaning socialism and leading straight to the gulag. But military pork-barreling is a kind of industrial policy itself, in which the "plan" seems to be that millions of Americans will make weapons or go without jobs. As for socialism, the military-industrial complex already represents a Soviet-style command economy in the midst of capitalism, a haven from the perils of the market, financed by public largesse...
...some reason, most major American plays center on conflict between fathers and sons. That terrain is revisited touchingly if without revelations in UNFINISHED STORIES, which retraces a classic immigrant generational cycle: from unyielding tradition to relentless assimilation to fervent rediscovery of old ways. Earnestly written by Sybille Pearson and meticulously staged by artistic director Gordon Davidson for Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum, the show stars Joseph Wiseman, Hal Linden, Christopher Collet and Fionnula Flanagan. The title refers to interrupted anecdotes that are a metaphor for how families live together yet alone. Alas, it is the sole hint of subtext amid...
...years ago, his life read like a Bolshevik parable, though shadowed by personal tragedy. He was born in 1941 in the town of Pozarevac, near Belgrade, where he still keeps a modest weekend home. His father was a seminary-trained teacher of religion from Montenegro and his mother a fervent communist; the two quarreled incessantly over ideological issues. Early on, his father abandoned the family, went back to Montenegro and later committed suicide. An uncle, a general in the army, died by his own hand as well. When Slobodan's mother killed herself in 1974, she reportedly left her devoted...