Word: ardor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Quincy's peculiarities are, in this neighborhood, well understood. His characteristic ardor of feeling, obstinacy of determination, and impetuosity in action, are known to all who have met him in public or private life... These qualities may be valuable in a popular leader, but they are more than useless in the President of a College. Students, though liable to error through inexperience, are nevertheless disposed to yield to just laws when enforced with mildness and dignity! These two requisites are manifestly wanting in Mr. Quincy...
Adam is about as adroit emotionally as he is politically. A long-legged secretary is unaccountably mad about him, but he takes to her with the ardor of a man on a diet taking yoghurt. The Eurasian girl he takes to bed turns out to be as mixed up in her political senses as she is in her veins: working as an agent for both the French and the Communists, she is eventually caught and doomed. At novel's end Adam Patch is recalled to Washington, the victim of what Author Shaplen plainly indicts as U.S. failure to pursue...
Mozart: Don Giovanni (Epic). One of the world's great operas performed with ardor and urgency...
...Lake-a moving mass of covered wagons, horses, mules, cows and oxen rolling over the "dusty and verry hot" trails. He records the daily search for precious pasture and fresh "waiter," the inevitable fevers, pains, accidents, deaths and childbirths. Throughout, imbuing the earthiest, coarsest things with the highest spiritual ardor, run the passionate preachings of the "Apostles...
...shipping tycoon and the schoolmaster husband of a librarian. Each summer, while the tycoon is in South America and the librarian apparently buried in the stacks, their spouses put slipcovers over their morals and spend two secret months together in New York. United by authorship as well as ardor, they write bestsellers under the name of Janus. His flat is on the floor above hers; when she wants him, she bangs on the ceiling with a broom, and he sneaks down through the dumbwaiter. Then one day her husband sails in through the door...