Word: passion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SOMEONE who was looking forward to the next in a series of apocalyptic novels by Walker Percy, Lancelot is like a disappointing rendezvous with an old flame. It lacks the electricity of former days, the stunning moments of lucidity and passion. The one who once radicalized you and opened your eyes to new kinds of wrongness in the world now has grown conservative, even reactionary. The eyes that once held the greatest depth, the silences that bore such meaning hypnotize you and hold you for a moment, but then you wonder whether still waters run deep or stagnant...
...result has been a kind of sexless recovery lacking passion, purpose and satisfaction. No one has got terribly excited about it, least of all the nation's investors. Last week they drove the Dow Jones Industrial Average down to 919, a 14-month low and a drop of 80 points since the start of the year; it rebounded to 927 on Friday. The market sagged despite bullish economic news. The nation's unemployment rate in March dropped to 7.3%, from February's 7.5%. The Commerce Department's index of leading indicators, a harbinger of growth, rose...
...help someone to be a busy old person, but as art and accomplishment it can help him to be fully alive. It was cheering to find such a lot of life and strength in the nursing home. I hadn't known that there was so much passion...
Mistress, while technically the right word to describe Nelly's relationship to Pierre, implies a love more passionate and unethical than that which truly characterizes their affair. Nelly's eyes aren't quite straight, she's free but realizes that that "doesn't necessarily mean sleeping with everybody" and she believes that to love means to notice someone else's problems. She understands the side of Pierre that his wife has never seen and thus serves a need, not a passion...
...Passion does exist, however. It lies nervously beneath the surface of Pierre's every glance and gesture, waiting to burst into violent action, though it rarely does. Goretta is more interested in the checks on animality, in the resonances that emanate from Pierre's life of thieving, than in the robberies themselves. Only when playing with his baby in a wild, almost frighteningly erotic state, do Pierre's instincts seem untamed. Only when he talks of wood do we realize the strength of their potential power...