Word: passion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...down abroad, White returned briefly to the States and got a taste of U.S. politics. An introduction was enough, and he returned to the States for good. To get back in touch, he traveled cross-country and learned less about America than he did about himself and his sublimated passion for politics...
...Boston, Schlesinger is in fine form. The classmate, counsel and biographer to the Kennedys reflects for a moment, takes the large, unlovely cigar away from his mouth, and begins to speak. The Kennedy brothers are not easily imitated, he says. No other politician, except Teddy, can match the passion with which John and Bobby approached life, public and private. Maybe in the '80s a new breed of concerned and committed leaders will arise, in a new convulsion, with a new concern about the poor and the powerless in America. Maybe. But things just haven't been the same since that...
...English aristocracy. Nicolson's mother, Vita Sackville-West, belonged to one of England's most venerable families; Knole, their fabled ancestral home, sheltered the sort of elaborate sexual and emotional transactions fashionable among the Bloomsbury set. But the Victorian era boasted its own dramas of unlikely passion: Vita's mother, Lady Victoria Sackville, was herself the illegitimate daughter of a Spanish dancer and a Sackville heir. Courted by President Chester A. Arthur and J.P. Morgan-to name two of the more prominent suitors-she married her first cousin and embarked on a chaotic life that involved...
...that he's one of the nicest guys you'll ever meet, with a quick wit, a dry Arkansas drawl, and the best sense of humor this side of North Little Rock. You can say that he had a passion for running the football, and for playing the game, that surpasses any passion most people have for anything their whole lives. And you can say that he had the most pure running talent of any back ever to attend Harvard University. And that he never got a fair shake here...
...Marla Pitchford [Sept. 11] with Hester Prynne is far from valid. Hester Prynne never aborted the consequences of her actions with the Rev. Dimmesdale. She bore her child, raising it with courage and dignity, thus earning for both of them a sense of self-worth. Hester's passion was matched by her sense of responsibility...