Word: passion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...maintains, in an angry denunciation of Lerner, that Women's Studies is a legitimate "developing discipline," "not intending to work as a particular propaganda," and not "a vapid political concession" by Harvard's faculty. Women's studies is not motivated by a petty political passion, and therefore the works on its reading list are not shallow, or "yipping pups." Her example of greatness is Simone de Beauvoir's The Second...
...simpler times Franklin Roosevelt was fond of the notion of a White House staff with a "passion for anonymity." But in the postwar era the President's palace guard has wielded far too much power to remain shrouded in obscurity. The character and competence of an Administration is often shaped by those who command offices in the West Wing of the White House. Such has been particularly the case with Ronald Reagan. In his first term, the fractious troika of James Baker, Edwin Meese and Michael Deaver exposed the often passive President to a wide diversity of opinion. In contrast...
Berenson conducted himself with what he called an "invincible passion for independence." This is not to say he achieved it. Colin Simpson's Artful Partners concedes that B.B.'s spirit may have been willing but that his flesh was weak. The evidence is incriminating: a secret 1912 contract with Duveen that reads like a textbook on conflict of interest, and a clandestine "X ledger," which details the artful partners' profits, losses and restoration expenses. There are also numerous examples that suggest Berenson relaxed his standards or changed his mind to accommodate Duveen and his brothers, who, as Simpson writes, were...
...York University for more than four decades. There, as in such books as The Hero in History, The Paradoxes of Freedom and Pragmatism and the Tragic Sense of Life, Hook established a well-founded reputation as a secular humanist. He questioned received ideas and challenged those who substituted passion for logic. The professor played no favorites, and few were happy with his investigations. To '30s conservatives, he seemed a Marxist apologist; to '60s New Leftists, he was a cold warrior. But as his autobiography proves, the only group to whom Hook paid strict allegiance was the party...
Royalle's four films are considered the best examples of porn in the feminist style. The sex scenes flow from female passion and needs, not male lechery, and women tend to initiate the sex. In Daughters, the male leads are unremittingly sensitive and determined not to dominate. When one of the three daughters gets a job in London, her boyfriend cheerfully changes jobs to follow her abroad. The youngest sister, after an endless series of chaste dates with a refined boyfriend, consummates the affair as the film ends. Says Royalle: "Women like the buildup, the tension -- Will...