Word: passion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Playwright Charles Fuller has paid his debt to Weaver handsomely by fleshing out the narrative with vivid character portraits and pungent humor. The strongest portrayal, by Douglas Turner Ward, is that of Sergeant Major Mingo Saunders. A 25-year veteran, Saunders has a passion for the regular army in the same way that a priest or an artist is called to his vocation. Ward sensitively conveys the intimate, though difficult burden of an NCO, who must understand the hurts and fears of his men, yet main tain a spit-and-polish discipline to steel each soldier for the fierce ordeal...
...chaser, or vice versa. But Sally (and the reader) gradually sees the connection. The characters of The Smugglers are also locked in demonic contest with their enemies-and themselves. They too know what Gardner seems to regard as the incurable and often suicidal addiction of modern man: a passion for absolute freedom that says, "I will be God or I will...
HALSMAN: My father wanted me to study medicine, but I thought that electrical engineering was the great profession of the future. After my father died, I went to Paris to continue my studies. Gradually, my slight interest in photography grew into a burning passion. Suddenly, I realized that, in spite of successfully passing all theoretical exams, I had not talent for the mechanical side of engineering. All my creative urges were stifled while I pursued my rather arid studies. At that time the social status of a photographer was not much higher than the status of a barber or waiter...
...They may argue that they were only obeying orders: Hughes wanted to live in utter privacy, away from the bedevilments of process servers and litigious lawyers hoping to cash in on his billions. He wanted, they may contend, protection from the prying press, which Hughes loathed with a passion. He also wanted isolation from the bacteria-filled world. Hughes was obsessed by a fear of contamination from other humans. Secretaries who typed memos that were to go to Hughes were ordered to wear white gloves while hunting and pecking. Whenever Hughes was lifted, he would place a Kleenex?"insulation...
That she does. Growing up in Somerville, N.J., Flicka was a tomboy. Horses were a special passion, and her nickname came from her fondness for the popular novel about a horse, My Friend Flicka. Her father, who was killed in action in World War II, came from a family of polo players. Her mother traces her ancestry back to Jonathan Trumbull, an early governor of Connecticut. At one point after she was widowed, her mother ran a combination restaurant and catering service with the help of Flicka and her brother. Flicka now easily throws together an impromptu meal for dozens...