Word: passion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Flatlanders never have been able to understand mountain climbers, and not even mountain climbers understand the pale, mud-smeared troglodytes whose curious passion it is to worm their way down through the clammy dark into the deepest and narrowest capillaries of caves. These low adventurers are brave, but their squirmy feats seem inglorious. If, slithering downward, one of them carried a banner, its strange device might well read !IROISLECXE...
...told his tales elsewhere. Among the newcomers, the best is George F. Will, who thinks cleanly and writes with irony. Others stand out for special qualities and interests, though these assets become debits when they get Johnny One Note about them, as Tom Wicker does with his angry Southern passion for civil liberties and prison reform, or Anthony Lewis with his affinity for the law and the opinions of the Harvard law faculty. Dave S. Broder ranks as the best political reporter in town. Peter Lisagor is admired for his wry sanity. Mary McGrory, a hard-working reporter, is experienced...
Woods' passion for cars was shared by Jim Schoenfeld, whose father is a well-to-do podiatrist. Schoenfeld and Woods owned a fleet of ancient cars, trucks and motorcycles. Occasionally, Rick Schoenfeld would help fix up the derelicts...
...Scaramouche, the author's usual demand for personal justice is transmuted into a passion for social justice, and this merging of private and public feeling lends the novel a universality Sabatini nowhere else achieved. In the Marquis de la Tour d'Azyr, he has made one of the subtlest villains in romantic literature, a good man perverted by a bad idea (aristocratic privilege excuses any crime) into a perfectly sincere monster. In Scaramouche, the hero, he has created his Hamlet...
...Bahjat Jaber was a bachelor millionaire and landowner with an overwhelming passion: he really wanted to be a police reporter. As a result, when the war broke out Jaber, a Greek Catholic, eagerly took on the assignment of totting up its casualties day by day. He checked hospital reports and the various warring forces, whose figures, while self-serving, were at least a basis on which to work. An important source was Hisham Shaar, chief of Lebanon's national police, whose network relayed not only the locations of new battles but also their ferocity...