Word: passion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...felt about civil rights, he might have answered something like this: 'Yes, of course, we must achieve racial justice in this country, and we will; but it is an explosive question, so let us go about it prudently.' Like most other white politicians, he underestimated the moral passion behind the movement. The protests of the Freedom Riders on the eve of his departure for the 1961 meeting with Khrushchev irritated...
...succession of little moneymakers he must try to capture as they flee past his view finder. It is the business of the film lo arrange a not entirely persuasive series of events that shatter Price's illusions about the power of objectivity to defend itself when political passion is afire. The rebels want him to fake a picture that will aid their cause; the government points him toward their secret base, hoping some of his other pictures will help it identify the state's enemies...
...Wolf is a Disney production and does have gamboling wolf pups, but director Carroll Ballard does not dish out family-restaurant-sized portions of easily-digestible nature. Instead, he treats his subject in a startlingly cool manner, devoid of treacly sentiment but shot through with a quiet, mystical passion, as in his magical The Black Stallion. Intensely beautiful images unfold one after the other, invoking that rarest of sensations nowadays un-pre-packaged wonder...
...eats lunch at home every day and later has only a light supper, often after a swim in a university pool. He likes to exercise on weekends by tramping 20 miles through the wilderness of Point Reyes National Seashore north of San Francisco. Despite his mathematician's passion for precision and clarity, his literary taste runs to the richly convoluted prose of Proust. As a teacher, Debreu is known for jotting mathematical formulas in the upper left-hand corner of a blackboard at the beginning of a lecture and then gradually covering every bit of remaining space with symbols...
What seems to be lacking in the old European churches is the passion for God and his truth that so characterizes Luther...