Word: passion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spirit of the decade. By and large, the struggles of the 1960s did not involve conflicts between partisans of different principles. What the 1960s did involve was a reaffirmation of traditional American ideals and values." Indeed, Huntington insists, the same is true of all four periods of activism ("creedal passion") in our history--the Revolutionary era, the Jacksonian period, the Progressive era and the 1960s and early 70s. "In sum, creedal passion periods involve intense efforts by large numbers of Americans to return to first principles," an "American creed" represented by vague and symbolic words like freedom, equality, justice...
...National Rifle Association is beating the old "right to bear arms" slogan, while ignoring the one fact that overwhelmingly takes precedence-the right to live. Allowing someone to carry a weapon that can be concealed and used at the whim of one's passion is immoral...
Nothing wrong with that, of course. But rarely has passion been so dispassionately treated on the screen, and rarely has a determination to be nonexploitational resulted in such sterility. There is more humanity on TV's Dating Game. And possibly more truth about the pain, bawdiness and lunacy that attend the business of "making love," no matter what your sexuality is. -By Richard Schickel
...pictures of something. So I see a picture, and a picture. Race has no bearing on it. I see Spofford Mitchell and Sally Sathers, two separatenesses, two separate and ignorant intelligences. One is staring at the other with terror, and the man is filled with a staggering passion to break through, in the only way he can conceive of breaking through--a sexual crash into release...
Nolan Bushnell, 39 last week, is the inventor of Pong, a kind of electronic Ping Pong that was the first successful coin-operated video game. The son of a Clearfield, Utah, cement contractor, Bushnell had a passion for amateur radio as a boy (call letters: W7DUK). That led to his first business: repairing radios, television sets and washing machines. He earned a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Utah in 1968. While there, he toyed with computers. He came up with Pong in 1971 and started selling the coin-operated game...