Word: passion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These sentiments had become unpopular after then Party Chief Nikita Khrushchev in 1956 exposed Stalin's campaigns of mass terror against innocent Soviet citizens. In his celebrated de-Stalinization speech, Khrushchev cited the national anthem as an example of the dictator's passion for self-glorification, calling it a "clear deviation from Marxism-Leninism, debasing and belittling the role of the party." After that, the lyrics were never sung, although the tune was occasionally played on state occasions and at sports events...
...opts for the latter, wholesome, all-American production that it is. Perhaps it would have been better going for the junkies. Benson falls for the tutor assigned to him by the athletic department, played by the appealing Annette O'Toole. She hates jocks, hates them with a passion, as does her hip psychology professor boyfriend. But Benson's earnestness soon makes her give up the obnoxious prof for her tutee, who convinces her that sports in themselves aren't all bad at the same time she initiates him to the pleasures of reading more than a playbook. The two make...
...were worrying Jimmy Carter last week are by no means uppermost in the minds of most Americans In state after state, members of Congress who returned home for the August recess found voters preoccupied by personal, local concerns rather than headline-grabbing, life-and-death issues. Occasional gusts of passion were stirred over the Panama Canal treaty and the economy, but voters mentioned the President only rarely and Bert Lance hardly at all. TIME correspondents joined five members of Congress on their recess rounds. Their reports...
Nine years out of ten, the peasants who live in the mountain-ringed Bavarian village of Oberammergau (pop. 4,800) devote themselves mainly to such tasks as herding cows, carving wooden figurines and drinking beer. Every tenth year, however, Oberammergau is transfigured into the site of the world-renowned Passion Play put on by a cast and crew of 1,400 villagers. So it has been ever since the 17th century, when the pageant was started after an epidemic of bubonic plague. During the last run in 1970, the 93 performances of the daylong Roman Catholic folk drama drew...
Leading the local campaign to reform the Passion Play is Hans Schwaighofer, 57, who played Judas in 1960 and heads the local woodcarving school. He has long advocated an abridged version of an older text, first performed in 1750, by Father Ferdinand Rosner, a Benedictine poet. Archconservatives on the village council, which oversees the play, rejected that plan at the time of the 1970 pageant. To meet growing international protests, however, the council toned down some of the most offensive lines. No longer did the High Priest Caiaphas say of Jesus, "It would delight mine eyes to see/ his body...