Word: ardors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John's Passion to its credit, Bethlehem's first Choral Union had broken up when it came to tackling the B Minor, which is technically difficult and emotionally demanding throughout its whole three-hour length. Said Founder Wolle: "They looked it over, and their ardor wilted." They disbanded. Five years later, a more determined group came together, rehearsed it for 14 months, then sang...
...must confess that for some time I had been eagerly planning to chew up the Advocate into little bite-sized pieces. I find, however, that, upon reading the magazine, my ardor in pursuing this sadistic task has been rather dampened by the quality of some of the material under consideration. Two stories, one poem, and one picture in the current issue are, I think, admirable, a fact which makes the magazine frustrating to the professional curmudgeon but rewarding to the reader...
Biographer Stryker's strip job, for all his courtroom ardor, is disappointing. At such length that tedium is the payoff, he uses conventional history to sketch in the political background for Erskine's cases. Thus he and the reader lose sight of Erskine for pages at a time. The mighty barrister emerges as less a man than a disembodied voice making noble utterances...
...Ardor & Judgment. It is Mann's tolerant, middle-of-the-road approach to man that has infuriated extremists of Right and Left, who have denounced him as a prominent but typical bourgeois. But to Mann, this insult is a compliment, because he believes that it was precisely the bourgeois soil of the 18th and 19th Centuries that nourished the traditions he most admires. Goethe, a dutiful privy councillor of Saxe-Weimar as well as a world poet; Tolstoy, a schoolteaching aristocrat who tried to look like a simple peasant-these men were cradled by the "bourgeois ideal of individual...
...road. On the contrary, he sees them as men who spent most of their lives and will power struggling to discipline passionate "animal" qualities. Out of this unresolved but "lofty encounter of nature and spirit" came the synthesis most admired by Mann-a harmonious and exalted mixture of primitive ardor and civilized judgment...