Word: passion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week's annual Labor Party conference, there had been signs that Gaitskell, after a year of increasingly uncomfortable fence-sitting, had decided to come out against the Common Market. But as he rose in the vast seaside sports stadium at Brighton, he astonished his socialist "brothers" by the passion of his 84-minute speech. The middle-road intellectuals and union leaders who have shared his views and fought his battles sat back in ashen-faced disgust as Gaitskell, longtime champion of NATO and other internationalist policies, piped the party down the road to timorous isolation from Europe. Hugh Gaitskell...
Double Choice. Unlike the usual "popularizer" of science, Eiseley is himself a scientist who commands the respect of his colleagues. Yet as a boy in Lincoln, Neb., he seriously considered becoming a poet. He got his love of language from his father, a little-known Shakespearean actor. His passion for science was roused by roaming the plains of western Nebraska, one of the world's finest Tertiary fossil beds. But anthropology alone seemed too narrow a field to his roaming mind, and he also studied biology and sociology in trying to understand the nature of man. After graduating from...
Brian Moore, the talented Irish-Canadian author of The Feast of Lupercal and The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, is the latest novelist to turn savagely on his own kind. Moore's miscreant hero is Brendan Tierney, a young Belfast short-storyist who has emigrated to New York and lost his faith, acquiring in its place a magazine job, some fake Danish furniture and an authentic American wife. Brendan's problem is that he is almost 30, the age at which a promising writer either writes something or becomes merely a pawned talent...
...young lovers strolled arm in arm into Death's own mausoleum. "The urn can be our cup of passion," said the young woman joyfully, "and the ashes will make a carpet for love...
...contrary, that is only the beginning of the passion of Barabbas, an agony not of hours but of years, a spiritual life and a ritual death that duplicate darkly the life and death of Christ. Like Christ, Barabbas goes into the wilderness; but whereas in the wilderness Christ came face to face with God, Barabbas turns away from him defiantly and resumes his wicked ways. Like Christ, he is brought to justice; but to his amazement he is once again delivered from death by the man who died that men might live. "A man who has been released...