Word: passion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...went from bad to worse. Till it crashed. She walked away from the accident in disgust--"Passion, schmassion...
...CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER, by William Styron. The passion and horror of the 1831 Negro slave revolt in Virginia are conveyed with eloquence in the Southern-born writer's fourth novel...
...heart attack; in Germantown, Pa. Etching vibrant colors into stone, he treated stories ranging from the Minotaur legend to the life of St. Francis, and, as museums across the country (Washington's National Gallery, Manhattan's Whitney) collected his prints, earned major recognition, most recently for The Passion of Ahab, 30 prints illustrating Moby Dick...
Though it may have been absurd, there was nothing contemptible about the antiquarian passion that swept a good part of the British upper classes at the time, when architects like Sir George Gilbert Scott and A.W.N. Pugin were creating hundreds of Neo-Gothic churches and restorations throughout England, and Sir Charles Barry was faking the medieval Houses of Parliament. For a generous spirit like Morris, it was an easy step from saying that life once was beautiful to believing that it could and should be beautiful again...
...Passion for Order. In their "immoderate desire for security," Jaspers finds Germans as overresponsive as ever to instant recipes for political salvation. They continue to put too much trust in the wrong things: the rationalism of know-how, the promise of perfection through the conquest of technology. Above all, "with built-in subject mentality," he says, the Germans trust their government just because it is their government. They uncritically share its passion for order while it gives low priority to civil rights and tirelessly promotes laws to cover every possible emergency. They cannot bring themselves to the heresy of doubting...