Word: passion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sheet over her nude body. Then he returned to the note?partially typewritten, partially handwritten, partially printed?that was to be his valedictory. Included was a tragic timetable: "12:30 a.m.?Mother already dead. 3 o'clock?both dead." He hated his father "with a mortal passion," he wrote, and regretted that his mother had given "the best 25 years of her life to that man." Clearly, the erratic orbit of his mind had already carried him off to some remote aphelion of despair. "Life is not worth living," he wrote. He had apparently concluded that if it were...
Most foreign countries have much stricter controls than the U.S., and some virtually outlaw guns. Given the American passion for guns, however, it would be unthinkable to ban firearm sales outright in the U.S., an action that would eliminate such legitimate uses as hunting, target shooting and, in some cases anyway, self-defense. But the Justice Department, bar associations and most U.S. police officials feel that much tighter gun controls are called...
Smiling but Silent. On opening night, however, the wondering quickly turned to wonder. Seated at the foot of the altar in the Gothic Saint-Pierre Church, Schneider, Serkin and Casals played Beethoven's Trio in E-Flat Major with a passion that made no concession to age. Casals' luminous tone filled the vast church like waves of sunlight, touching the life's breath of the music. At concert's end, the audience of 1,000 rose from the hardwood pews smiling but silent-the only tribute allowed in the church. Later, when the old man walked...
Christina's other great passion was art. At her death, some 200 fine Italian masters were included in the inventory of her estate, and were eventually scattered across the globe in collections as far away as India. As a Council of Europe exhibition in Stockholm's National Museum currently shows, Christina amassed both the wondrous and the weird of her time (opposite page). Some of it has been destroyed or lost, but the reassembled wealth of her collection fills 36 rooms, a tribute to the woman hailed in her lifetime as the Athena of the North...
...notion that the Jewish and Moslem prohibition against pork started because of fear of food poisoning. The pig was taboo from earliest times because it was worshiped by primitive peoples who also sacrificed it to their idols and ate it in sacred meals. This made Jews, in their passion for monotheism, reject...