After "Feels" was released, in 2005, the band developed the kind of ardent following associated with the Grateful Dead or, more recently, Radiohead; audience recordings of the band's performances are posted on the Internet soon after each show.
Mr. Noble also suggests that every American transportation revolution has been associated with ardent Masons: canals (DeWitt Clinton and Stephen Van Rensselaer); steamboats (Robert Fulton); railroads (George Pullman, Edward Harriman, James J. Hill); the automobile (Henry Ford); the airplane (Charles Lindbergh) and space flight (at least half a dozen astronauts).
Yet, for all his ardent anti-communism, which associates said was a lifelong principle, Mr. Meyer faced accusations at the height of the McCarthy era that he was a Communist sympathizer.
"Not too long ago, she was like the pope," rarely criticized by her ardent supporters, said Janice Peck, an associate professor of mass communication at the University of Colorado and the author of "The Age of Oprah," a new book on Ms. Winfrey's cultural influence.
He is an honorary associate of the National Secular Society and an ardent supporter of gay equality movements, with the exception of same-sex marriage, describing marriage as "part of the baggage of heterosexual society".
That issue seemed to play little role in Turkey, where the overwhelming sentiment among voters was an ardent desire to throw out of office anyone associated with the country's collapsing economy.
Rousseau, Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, and other writers associated with Denis Diderot's Encyclopédie began as ardent Rameau enthusiasts, but, by the mid-1750s, as they warmed more and more to Italian music, they gradually turned against him.
Everybody associated with rugby league, even the most ardent Australia fan, will be hoping that was an aberration.
Even Mr. Mandela's most ardent disciples should admit that he would do far better to associate himself more closely with the words of Dr. King and Gandhi than those of Lenin.
And since he's been positively identified as a Death Eater as Lord Voldemort's most ardent followers call themselves it's likely few politicians will continue to associate with him.
And since he's been positively identified as a Death Eater--as Lord Voldemort's most ardent followers call themselves--it's likely few politicians will continue to associate with him.
