Word: passion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...presenting excerpts from Teddy White's new book, In Search of History: A Personal Adventure. In it, the furious energy and unquenchable curiosity that made White a journalist remain undiminished. He knew many of the great figures of our time, often intimately, and he writes about them with passion...
Tito spends as little time as possible in the capital. His favorite summer retreat is the Adriatic island of Brioni, while his winters are spent at a cliffside villa in Igalo, on the southern tip of Yugoslavia. He still indulges his passion for hunting: last year the Yugoslav news agency Tanjug solemnly reported that he had shot the largest ibex ever killed in the Slovene mountains. He is also an inveterate movie watcher, favoring westerns and detective films. He lives alone, having a year ago banished from public view a third wife, Jovanka, 32 years his junior. She had apparently...
...final, and in fact horn honking, paper throwing and impromptu parades through the streets had gone on more or less constantly for most of the month. The ecstasy had reached heights of unexpected loftiness -soccer is a workingman's game, not an intellectual's austere passion. At the beginning of the World Cup uproar, the revered and renowned Argentine Author Jorge Luis Borges, 78, had announced irritably that he was going to leave Buenos Aires until the nonsense was finished. He stayed, and toward the end was telling friends that it would be terrible, utterly unacceptable, if Argentina...
Instead, Aaron marries Shosha, a stunted, retarded girl he had known as a child. He knows exactly what this move means: "I was rejecting a woman of passion, of talent, with the capability of taking me to wealthy America, and condemning myself to poverty and death from a Nazi bullet." Why? It is the most frequent question in Singer's fiction and the one least frequently answered. Aaron offers tentative explanations to himself and others: loyalty to the past that Shosha shared with him, a mystic identification with her simplicity, even the conviction that Shosha is the one woman...
...machinations of dybbuks or the fist of fate. Such readers forget the most important ingredient in the ancient art of storytelling that Singer practices: wonder, awe at a world that can contain such deeds and such doers. Aaron echoes his creator when he complains about the cold passion for explanations: "Who says that everything nature or human nature does can be expressed in motives and words? I had been aware for a long time that literature could only describe facts or let the characters invent excuses for their acts. All motivations in fiction are either obvious or false...