Word: passion
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...years on the hustings, Mitterrand's personal passion is not politics but literature. The new President spends hours reading or writing (he has authored ten books on politics) in the library of the town house in Paris' Left Bank where he lives with his wife of 36 years, Danielle. They have two grown sons. In place of Giscard's technocratic competence, Mitterrand offers a romantic if hazy vision of a more humane and just French society. "I don't calculate," says Mitterrand, "I feel...
Thoreau observed that man's urge to understand the natural world is often thwarted by his passion "that all things be mysterious and unexplorable." Former Audubon Magazine Editor John K. Terres offers a refreshing alternative: a 7½-lb., kaleidoscopic catalogue of the appearance, habitats, songs, ranges and nests of 847 avian species found in North America. Terres finds no need to overstate the complex marvels of the feathered world outside the window...
...photographs and drawings in this striking tome. Terres wrote all the entries himself, a labor of 21 years, balancing the scientific and the popular, to please novice and expert alike. He updates ornithological subjects like mating. Some findings: scientists now call the hummingbird's brief passion "promiscuous"; birds fly by instinct, not parental instruction; a robin's natural life span can be as long as 11½ years, but its life expectancy, because of power lines and pesticides, is little more than one year...
When the elder Haas retires from Levi Strauss next year to indulge his passion for fly-fishing on Oregon streams, Eisenhardt, a Berkeley law professor before he became the team's president, will continue to reflect the family philosophy. Says he: "You wouldn't go into this as a business investment. You do it because you can get a lot of satisfaction out of it." His relationship with Martin is refreshingly tension-free, at least so far. Says Eisenhardt: "Billy is in charge of everything on the field. I'm in charge of everything that...
These whimsical, if melancholy, statistics are cited by Market Strategist Raymond DeVoe, 51, writing in the April issue of Inc., a magazine for the small businessman. Serious passion, DeVoe has found, is even more pricey than casual dalliance. A candlelight dinner at an excellent New York restaurant, about $18 then, now costs $80 (up 344%). If music be the food of love, one might be tempted to tell the circling violinists to play on. The problem is the tip: $5, up 900% from the 50? that would have satisfied a '50s fiddler. Dom Perignon champagne, to celebrate a month...