Word: passion
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...midplay a second parody begins. Four of the nun's former students have come to perform a kind of Passion Play that had been staged by one of their classmates in their years at the school. The little troupe enacts the life of Christ from his birth in Bethlehem to his Crucifixion on Golgotha...
...Long Island Sound because of his wily ways in skippering sailboats to victories; in New Rochelle, N.Y. A teetotaler from St. Paul, Shields and his brother Paul started the Shields & Co. investment firm in 1923 that eventually became Bache Halsey Stuart Shields. Sailing was Shields' ruling passion, and the first North American sailing championship, in 1952, was one of his many triumphs. A heart attack forced him to stop racing competitively in 1956, but he returned briefly to skipper the U.S. defender, Columbia, during the final trials of the 1958 America...
While Americans may seem younger, feel healthier and slimmer, the passion for muscularity reverberates in the country's collective unconscious. More than waistlines may be getting leaner. In fact, the glorification of the body, the absorption with physical beauty, the passion for youthfulness and health that are now part of everyday American life at home and on the job, are transforming the nation's character, like...
...knowledge that two slices of Pepperidge Farm white bread contain more sodium than a 1-oz. bag of Lay's potato chips is a mainstream American fact of life. Label reading is not the passion of a literary or political elite...
...reverence for knowledge, and their resilience in the face of oppression. His judgements are hardly fatuous, but the product of careful research and reflection. Sowell does a credible job purveying what usually passes for the stereotypes of certain ethnic groups as specific interpretations of their cultural inheritance. The Irish passion for alcohol may have arisen from the futility of life in a land where whiskey proved cheaper than bread, as Jewish resourcefulness and guile may have from centuries of oppression across the diaspora. Yet, drawing these traits in light of their cultural origins is hardly original to Sowell's treatise...