Word: passion
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...Southeast Asia. And Johnson's problem remained America's problem for years: the nation somehow never quite squarely looked at Viet Nam and asked itself what it was doing there. A certain legerdemain was the official style of Viet Nam. Americans deliberately tried to fight without stirring up war passions at home--with the result that the passion, when it came, was one of revulsion. The Americans tried to fight a "limited war." The Vietnamese Communists were fighting an absolute...
...well as budgets. Before Roger and Jill Spencer of Montgomery, Pa., got theirs, he was home only twelve days in a six- month period. "When I told him," says Jill, "he didn't believe it. I missed him and all." Like many trucking couples, the Spencers share a passion for their rig. The couple's $100,000 Peterbilt truck and Double Eagle sleeper combination has won several prizes at truck shows. "It's almost like our baby," admits Jill. And for those actually having a baby? On March 15, a little girl, Julia Louise, was born to the Yanceys...
Harvard is not alone in its tribute to Bach. On March 21, Bach's actual birthday, St. Matthew's Passion, one of his major works, was broadcast worldwide from Leipzig, the city where Bach spent most of his life. A number of other universities have also celebrated Bach's birth, but mostly with one-day celebrations...
...Matthew Passion...
...moral outrage in middle age measures the degree of early infatuation and ultimate disappointment. With the passion of a lover betrayed, Schickel protests that celebrities in the arts "are used to simplify complex matters of the mind and spirit." We look at the face and ignore the work. Celebrities "subvert rationalism in politics." We neglect the issues and vote for the image most skillfully packaged on TV. In every department of life, celebrities are a "corruption," Schickel's label for the shallowness and glitz of late 20th century civilization. With considerable reason, he blames celebrities and the cameras without which...