Word: passion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...within the French Resistance. Indeed, Barbie had bragged that he would reveal the extent of French collaboration with the Nazi occupiers. Many French feared the result would rip open barely healed wartime divisions among themselves. It turned out, however, that the French followed the trial with calm rather than passion. The proceedings were regarded almost as a history lesson rather than an occasion to refight painful and never forgotten war experiences...
...house he occupies is as strange as he is, at once balanced and perilous, like a house of cards. The basic text of the Constitution is the main building, a symmetrical 18th century structure grounded in the Enlightenment principles of reason, optimism, order and a wariness of emotion and passion. The Constitution's architects, all fundamentally British Enlightenment minds, sought to build a home that Americans could live in without toppling it by placing their impulses above their rationality. To these men, who grew up on Swift, Hume, Locke and Pope, stability and moderation were not only practical measures...
...Roxanne's balcony . . . But you've heard this story before. It is Cyrano de Bergerac replanted in rural Washington State. Chivalric C.D. is no swordsman; he duels with tennis racquet and walking stick. Rostand's purple poetry is replaced with C.D.'s Hallmarkian attempt to turn palship into passion: "Why should we sip from a teacup when we can drink from the river...
...well gee, that'll happen in the real world. The closer I come to some of the grim aspects of this type of life, I ask myself, is this the sacrifice I want to make," Potok says. "The being hungry for a while doesn't worry me. If the passion's there, you'll get there. The difficulty is doubting the passion." Potok thinks she may work with an acting teacher in Israel or return to America and head to Chicago...
Today Koop, 70, is as controversial as ever, but the same proud passion and idealistic intensity that once endeared him to conservatives now enrage right- wing activists. This sea change stems from a single cause: the politics of AIDS. The Surgeon General is the Administration's leading advocate of the view that sex education is the most effective way to limit the AIDS epidemic. Beginning with a controversial report to the President last October, Koop has insistently argued that candor and condoms are more effective public-health tools than sermons on chastity. Last week Koop was the lone Administration dissenter...