Word: passion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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NEITHER CELINE'S fiction, nor his political rhetoric is informed by logic. They are both swept along by passion and instinct, by a kind of blindly nihilistic faith. McCarthy suggests that his antisemitism is coupled with an affinity for the Jew and explains this ambivalence in pseudo-religious terms...
Buckley, founder of People vs. Handguns, said that a ban on guns would "be aimed at the passion crimes," and would decrease the number of gun-related accidents and suicides...
...that he stands behind his son, he leans into the wind on a bridge over the Saone while Antoine indulges in a tirade against authority. Antoine can't believe that Bernard landed a 20-year sentence for having the instincts of an honest man when a sleazy crime of passion would have earned him a much lighter punishment. Descombes listens in silence, then softly repeats, "Twenty years. My God!" His stolid expression crumples feature by feature and he begins to weep. And this, more than Antoine's polemics, is what moves us: just a homely middle-aged man who looks...
Roger Kahn is a man of highly varied passions. He loves to read Wallace Stevens and Thomas Hardy. He loves hearing Heifetz play Sibelius' D-minor Violin Concerto. He grew up listening to Sir John Gielgud recite Shakespeare on brittle 78-r.p.m. records and in the '40s saw Paul Robeson's towering Othello. He has a passion for all these pleasures-and sports as well...
...Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts," Paul Johnson writes. Johnson is an Orwellian socialist deeply concerned for liberty, a dyspeptically progressive Roman Catholic, former editor of the left-wing British journal New Statesman, and a believer with a passion for accuracy. He has written a literary rarity, a highly readable, deeply learned, thoroughly fascinating account of 2,000 years of Christian history...