Word: passion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their Commencement 25 years ago, then Harvard President Nathan M. Pusey '28 told graduating members of the Class of 1960 that they suffered from a "deficiency of passion and concern...
Pusey blamed the deficiency on Harvard's failure to emphasize faith as much as it did academic success. But, members of the Class of 1960 recall, Harvard was not to blame. If they suffered from a lack of passion, they say, it was because there was a lack of anything to be passionate about...
...crackdown hardly came as a surprise. In recent months the Soviet press has been railing against alcohol abuse and condemning the country's passion for vodka, or, as Soviets often call it, the green serpent, for the creature it can evoke. Excessive drinking is described as the leading cause of divorce, violent crime and accidental death. Soviet statistics also suggest that alcohol abuse is the main reason that male life expectancy, which is on the rise in all other industrialized nations, has dropped from 67 years to 62 over the past 20 years. Says a Western diplomat based in Moscow...
...Rocky Mountains. The two offer a startling physical contrast: Davis is a 6-ft. 4-in. bear weighing 300 lbs. and fond of enveloping friends in an enormous embrace; Murdoch is trim, 5 in. shorter and circumspect, though cordial, in manner. Both share an aversion to the spotlight, a passion for long working hours and, more to the point, a consuming interest in making their millions beget more millions...
Most of the passion attending 1918 was spent in getting the story on film. This is a family movie in every sense of the term. The writer is Horton Foote (Tender Mercies), who based his script on incidents in his parents' lives in Wharton, Texas. Foote's wife was one of the film's producers; his son worked as an actor, casting director and production assistant; the bed in which Horace ails belonged to Foote's parents; the baby born at film's end is most likely the author. And the leading lady is Foote's daughter Hallie. A vanity...