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Word: passion (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...miner can work six or even seven days a week if he wants to, but he generally doesn't. Many miners take three-day weekends, especially during hunting and fishing season. It does not cost much to live in the hollows, and miners do not have a passion for accumulating money, except in preparation for a strike. They feel that generations of miners have purchased their rural amenities with sweat and blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Work | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

They gather in some dark restaurants and bars, these punks who are to the violent passion which rips through their music like so many pins and needles poking surprise where order...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Even Punks Sing the Blues | 3/2/1978 | See Source »

Wherever he goes in the U.S., Doc Fiedler maintains his passion for talking and writing about society's strangers-red men, black men, and now, the deformed. If the new book seems less academic and theoretical than many of the author's earlier works, it is simply because, as Fiedler says, "you can't talk about abstractions when you talk about freaks." R.Z. Sheppard Excerpt "Children who are born legless or armless, their limbs amputated by a tangled umbilical cord, are sometimes hard to tell from true phocomelics, or seal-children, with vestigial hands and feet attached...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Leslie Fiedler's Monster Party | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

...though hardly lubricated, course; the solemnity of his touch earned unintentional laughs even from the audience I saw the film with, an unsophisticated bunch who wanted porn instead of corn. Petrie didn't even attempt to endow the cars with a mystical beauty that would explain the attraction and passion of men like Loren Hardeman Sr. Instead he gives us so many walks with beautiful girls in clothes that look like they're going to swish off against the beautiful scenery. At least John Barry's score has an attractive lilt, and the "Love Theme From The Betsy," if that...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Not the Promis'd End | 2/16/1978 | See Source »

...said he was trying to show how the character of Judas developed through successive presentations of the Passion in the Bible and how the development of the character required the authors to add unsubstantiated details to complete the narrative...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Norton Lectures | 2/14/1978 | See Source »

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