Word: passion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact of Walter Mondale. Admirable as he is, Mondale did not run an effective campaign. He began his quest for the White House on the odd note of promising to raise taxes. Near the end of his campaign, he drove home differences of principle with the Republicans, but the passion came too late. In terms of abstractions, it may be said that Mondale represented the past of Big Government, now seen as less appealing than the past of free enterprise represented by Reagan. But most people recognize such polarities as the stuff of speeches; realism always tugs toward the middle...
...crosscurrent of emotions and interests. In 1984 the crosscurrents of a new culture and a new resistance shaped the election as much as or more than the debate on missile confrontation, budget deficits or the trade war. Nor do these crosscurrents show any sign of abating, or the passion of the clerics any sign of softening...
...misgivings about his mission increase. He does not relish the task of retrieving Alan from the fictitious temple of Equus and restoring him to the antiseptic world of normalcy. And it is more than just "professional menopause" from which Dysart suffers. Behind Alan's pain he sees a passion that is absent from his own life. The choice facing Dysart is whether to leave Alan in his own vivid albeit torturing world, or to send him on his way into a society bleached of real emotions...
...nourished the flame of Democratic liberalism, it was also likely to be, for those who believe the polls, his last week stumping for the nation's highest office. He, too, culminated his campaign by calling forth the core ideals of his career, displaying the tenacity and "Fighting Fritz" passion he seems to reserve for life-or-death political situations...
...HARD TO blame the networks for their passion to be first. Immediacy is their strongest suit. Newspapers take the time to research and prepare in-depth analyses or investigative pieces. For its part, TV news generally follows the print media's lead, as it did after the Louisville debate. On the following Tuesday morning, The Wall Street Journal ran a front-page story on Reagan's age as a campaign issue. Guess which heretofore untouched story led the broadcasts on each network that night? The debate had been on a Sunday. Why hadn't age been a story on Monday...