Word: passion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they were to do throughout his life, inspire and uplift him. To escape the moneylenders, however, he marries a rich widow twelve years his senior-and immediately falls in love with her. Often silly and foolish, but kind and loyal, his Mary Anne (Mary Peach) becomes, after politics, the passion of his life. "Dizzy married me for my money," she says late in life, "but I think if he had to do it again, he'd do it for love." She was right: Disraeli, that most cynical of all politicians, was also the most romantic...
...Paris. His departure was, for the world of art, the equivalent of Paul's journey to Damascus. He spent his working life in France, but he remained a Spaniard to his elegant fingertips. His piercing, unblinking deep-chestnut eyes spoke of the Spanish soul's passion. Even after he began to prosper, he was content to dress and live like a Spanish peasant, eating beans and drinking coarse red wine, in loud cafes and private rooms of indescribable clutter. And though it was in France that he found fame and fortune, he remained curiously indifferent to that nation...
...revenge begot another, so that violence originating in some forgotten crime or slight could reverberate for generations. Eventually he old brutal arrangement was superseded by the laws of the tate, which undertook to end the freelance savageries of personal revenge by meting out justice uncomplicated by private passion. When the state assumed the responsibility for punishing an offense, the matter, in theory, ended there...
...buries the sprawling abstract formalism of the book, so reminiscent of the ancient tragedians and the old stories of Hardy and George Eliot, her literary forebearers, beneath a shimmering surface of immediacy. The novel makes its transit through lines and stars through the inner spaces of loneliness and passion...
...musical observers by turning his back on celebrity, suspending all recording activity and curtailing most of his concerts. He returned to Milan for a few more years of musical study and reflection; he sought out the reclusive pianist Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli for lessons; he read philosophy and pursued his passion for chess...