Word: passion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Through its fictional conceit, Flaubert's Parrot illustrates, among other things, how scholarship can and should be an expression of passion, a declaration of love...
...those who would rather not think about World War II, or the cold war either, one of the main events of the year is the 300th birthday of Johann Sebastian Bach.* Anyone who missed the St. Matthew Passion in Bach's hometown of Leipzig on his actual birthday, March 21, can sample Bach festivals in Hamburg, Berlin, Heidelberg and Stuttgart, as well as the nine-day Bachanalia on the island of Madeira in June. And if this seems a surfeit of baroque music, remember that June 16 is Bloomsday in Dublin, when admirers of James Joyce spend 18 hours retracing...
...house in a suburb called Humble. He preaches on the weekends and Wednesday nights, mows his yard, trims his hedges and spends two days a week on the ranch, threading his truck between slash pines and pin oaks to haul feed to his cows and horses. Animals are his passion--animals and sleeping and eating. "I think sleeping was my problem in school," he allowed. "If school had started at around 4 o'clock in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today." Foreman dropped out of junior high school...
...percent of the world's evils. That might be okay if the script were consistently kept to the runaways' perspectives out too often playwright's thetoric intrudes. This is particularly annoying in a monologue like. "To The Dead of Family Wars," though Lois Johnson musters up enough conviction and passion for the occasion...
...rumors about a takeover of CBS last week were turned into prime-time fare, the cast would ensure boffo ratings. Here is Ted Turner, the mustachioed buccaneer of the cable airwaves whose passion is to call another network his own. There is Ivan Boesky, a Wall Street wizard who spends millions to make millions. And don't forget Jesse Helms, the conservative North Carolina Senator who has suggested to his constituents that it would be nice if they were Dan Rather's boss...