Word: passion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...MODERN state makes order out of all things. Passion gives way to reason, chaos to structure. Play, to the extent there is such a thing, is to be regulated. Disneyland is the supreme expression of this ethic. In that pre-fabricated funland, the funhouse attendant can tell you exactly how long you will be waiting before you are allowed to enter. Even fun can be planned right down to the last second...
...single volume that explores all of its delectable diversity. Southern Food, by John Egerton (Knopf; 408 pages; $22.95), combines history and lore, recipes and personalities plus, as lagniappe for travelers, a selection of restaurants in the South recommended for firsthand sampling. Egerton, a Nashville-based writer with a lifelong passion for food, has included a bibliography of writings about Southern food and quotes on this colorful cuisine from a variety of authors and observers. In describing Southern manners, he recalls how a good Georgia girl was taught by her grandmother that when she wanted to be excused from the table...
...Chairman Biden, the hearings could provide a spark for his presidential campaign by giving him a chance to show his mettle in front of a national television audience. Yet his passion and propensity to rattle on could be his undoing. When Secretary of State George Shultz testified on South Africa last summer, Biden's angry attack on Shultz left some viewers with an intemperate image of the Senator. As Biden concedes, "Exposure is good only if you do well, only if you appear knowledgeable and fair." Both Democrat DeConcini and Republican Hatch have warned somewhat hyperbolically that if Bork...
...work of crazy states. Reagan was certainly right that these countries are "united by their fanatical hatred of the United States." But that in itself is not proof of derangement. Hatred is a common, often useful, phenomenon in international relations. And fanaticism is a measure of passion, not irrationality...
...visit will rescue their faith in the universe's orderliness. Well, they have reckoned without the rain, mud and chill. Or the bull in a neighbor's field. Or the queenly ardor of Withnail's Uncle Monty (a sweetly mad Richard Griffiths), who turns up to pursue his hopeless passion for "and I." Somehow, Wordsworth failed to mention these inconveniences...