Word: passion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Among the Democrats there is still a little passion left. As Carter and Reagan were talking past each other in Columbus, Ted Kennedy was in Cleveland issuing a wan challenge to Carter to debate him before the convention. If Carter would do so, Kennedy said, he would release his delegates and ask Carter to do the same, to produce a truly open convention. The chances of that happening, as Kennedy well knows, are about equal to the odds that a heavy snowfall will envelop Madison Square Garden when the Democrats meet on Aug. 11. Carter has agreed to debate Reagan...
Reagan's main foreign policy theme is anti-Sovietism-visceral, unequivocal and global. In his stump speeches, Reagan's voice vibrates with passion when he refers to "the historical role of the Soviet Union, which is to dominate every corner of the world." In private briefings, he becomes most attentive, animated and even argumentative when the subject turns to the Soviets: "How can we trust them? They'll nail us every chance they...
...perfect day on the Cape. Basking in the pleasant late-afternoon glow, she muses about the grand old game of golf. "It's a mental game, dominated by inconsistency, a sort of constant inconstancy." That's the reason Greis attacks the game and attacks it with a passion...
Wilkerson talks of Solomon Brothers with enthusiasm, but of dance with passion. "It's like doing nothing else, it makes me feel like singing. I can't really put it into words, but I guess that's why I dance," she says...
Ignatius' ruling passion is his utter contempt for the modern age; its manifestations make his pyloric valve close, trapping gas in his cavernous stomach. His heart belongs to the early Middle Ages...