Word: passion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...alliance to fight the next election. The Liberals, who have not held power alone since 1915, have only eleven M.P.s (out of 635), but they polled 14% of the vote in the general election of 1979. The marriage with the S.D.P. may have been one of convenience rather than passion, but if the two parties had remained separate they would have canceled each other out scrambling for the key centrist vote...
...other issue--America's role in the ThirdWorld, where he argues a fairly straight liberal line--he speaks with clarity and a certain passion. Though the former Peace Corps volunteer couches his argument in the language of national security ("Regard foreign aid as a crucial investment," and "Stop giving up nations to the Soviets," he instructs) and not morality, his conclusions are those of a decent, committed American. It is the only time he really throws down the gauntlet at the feet of American conservatives, which may explain why it stands out like a Guardian Angel on a half-empty...
...breaks that encouraged investment in Lowell meant the plant didn't go up in some other town. And, by the same token, any concessions to profit that can be made to keep industry in America means someone overseas will go without. Like many embraces more ardent than wise, this passion for industry will likely end up with someone getting screwed; if concessions must be made, they should be made cynically. It's all right to bat one's eyelashes at that rich computer company, but a roll in the hay is no trivial decision...
What Tsongas argues for is sanity. If only people would listen to reason. If only people wouldn't be so pushed and pulled by interest of passion. If only, if only, if only. It's not just that it's unrealistic, it's also that it turns whiny after a bit. Tsongas's justification is that disaster looms--the metaphor he uses throughout the book is a canoeist approaching a waterfall, who must recognize the danger in time and act sensibly by plunging into the chilly water. Our junior senator is the man standing on the shore yelling, "Turn back...
Sociologist Laner blames cruelty at coeducational institutions in large part on a "violence-loving society" that has nurtured this college generation on murder movies and newspaper stories detailing crimes of passion. Other experts speculate that lack of parietal rules has put too much sexual and emotional strain on the young. College students have always had a hard time deciding what comes first-school work or a loved one. On today's openly sexual, highly competitive campuses, even the most solid balancing act can come unbalanced. In such a zero-sum scenario, each hour spent with one's partner...