Word: passion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Baines Genes. The boy was naturally a mother's delight. "Always generous," Rebekah writes, "he showered his mother with gifts, pebbles and flowers." Like Gautama Buddha or the youthful George Washington, Lyndon Johnson "had a passion for truthfulness." When a relative insisted that "all children tell stories," Mrs. Johnson was "shocked and indignant." "My boy," she declared, "never tells...
...What happened to Christ in his Passion cannot be attributed to all Jews, without distinction, then alive, nor to the Jews of today...
...word deicide that most troubled Catholic conservatives; to them, its use suggested a denial of the Gospel accounts of the Passion. Arab diplomats, with strong moral support from Catholic bishops in their countries, lobbied at the Vatican against the declaration on the ground that it could be construed as pro-Israel propaganda Shortly before the fourth session began, "deicide," at Pope Paul's suggestion, was again excised; the secretariat also indicated that the declaration was prompted "not by political reasons but by the Gospels' spiritual love." In compensation, the final draft included the first specific mention of antiSemitism...
...medical advisers approved. For a man about to undergo major surgery, he was clearly overweight. So Lyndon, who fights a constant, losing battle to subdue his passion for pies and chocolate bars, went on a strict diet. Thus the President had seldom seemed in better shape (down from 220 to 202 lbs.) when he flew up to Manhattan the day before the Pope's visit, to sign the new immigration bill in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty. Next afternoon, after Pope and President had conferred privately for 46 minutes in a 35th floor suite at the Waldorf...
Stieglitz had gone to Berlin to study engineering, but one day day he noticed a camera in a store window. He went inside and bought it. From that time, the camera "fascinated me, first as a passion, then as an obsession," Stieglitz wrote later. "The camera was waiting for me by predestination and I took to it as a musician takes to a piano or a painter to canvas. I found I was master of the elements, that I could work miracles...