Word: passion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Plarr goes through the proper noble motions--tending sick peasant children, standing up to the police chief after the hospital is raided and displaying proper filial devotion to his absent father--he nevertheless comes off as a filial playboy. When the police commissioner questions Parr about a "crime of passion," he responds, "Passion? I'm English." Try maladjusted...
Bards and journalists have always known that war is the most dramatic of stories, the richest to tell. It is dense with spectacle and passion, with endless subplots of fear and bravery and cowardice, of betrayal and hope. Although it is grotesque to say it, war has everything, which may explain its persistence on the human agenda. It is character and politics and statecraft and violence and destruction and redemption, almost the full symphony of his tory's possibilities. War is mankind in full panoply and in extremis. It has always been, too, a form of madness. But until...
...Apple Computer advertisement indicates, the enduring American love affairs with the automobile and the television set are now being transformed into a giddy passion for the personal computer. This passion is partly fad, partly a sense of how life could be made better, partly a gigantic sales campaign...
...doublethinking? Orwell described doublethink as accepting "two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously." Is there no doublethinking required about abortion, school prayer, foreign policy, nuclear weapons? What would be the advantage of singlethinking on such issues, unless one thrives on zealotry and has a deep-seated passion to be wrong...
...Olivia must learn to live with the tedious Indian climate and landscape. As an Englishwoman who married an Indian, Jhabvala understands better than anyone the difficulty of living between cultures, neither Indian nor fully British. She endows the relationships between Anne and Olivia and their Indian lovers with a passion and tension which could only derive from common experience...