Word: passion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Thomas Stearns Eliot--banker, publishing executive, playwright, premier poet of this century--passed his domestic life on automatic pilot, while his mind found refuge and flourished in the Waste Land. The play's Tom (Edward Herrmann) finds it "an enormous effort to be trivial" with people. He husbands his passion for the empty page. He is the hollow man, a prune and a prude with the secret sin of genius, which must not be dissipated in ordinary intercourse. This Olympian diffidence, Hastings suggests, was sufficient to make the young scholar from St. Louis a figure of fun to his English...
...staff of General Douglas MacArthur, another hero of his. After mustering out, Weinberger practiced law in San Francisco, but quickly grew restless in the private sector. He won election as a moderate Republican to the state assembly, became a vestryman of his Episcopal church and turned his passion for reading into an unpaid sideline, writing book reviews...
...jovial, Buddha- like countenance, James Beard was central casting's dream of a food writer come true. Almost until his death last week of a heart attack following a kidney infection, Beard, 81, remained a monumental and genial presence in New York City food markets and restaurants, where his passion for good eating invariably proved contagious. Displaying a grand flair for showmanship refined by early training for the stage, he created dramatic settings for his cooking classes, for his writing and entertaining, and for his superb collection of majolica and antique wineglass rinsers in his handsome Greenwich Village town house...
SIPPING CAPPUCINO in a Greek restaurant, Pamela Yates and Tom Sigel look like an all-too-typical, yuppie couple enjoying a comfortable, Bostonian existence. Only when they start to talk, he more reticently but just as intensely as she, do they reveal the passion which has led them--by jeep, horseback and foot--throughout all of Central America...
...certainly assumed he was going to give the inaugural address the country didn't let him make," said Gomes. "This was as good a platform as any to annouce that he's still in business, and he did that with passion and conviction...