Word: passional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While such a policy undoubtedly has strengthened the Communist Party, basically it has succeeded in its objective. Today the mass of the Spanish people, fearing renewed civil conflict, have become indifferent to politics. The traditional Spanish passion does not exist and Spain is a peaceful country whose revolutionary energy has been largely dissipated...
Ecstatic Squeals. Kennedy is well enough aware of this side of his image and takes it with a fatalism that is brightened by the passion of his partisans. Last week, during a seven-state campaign swing from Indiana to California, Bobby-who has been depilating so steadily that he may soon look like a Marine boot-deliberately courted more mature audiences than the screaming bobby-hoppers that so often greet him. But age made little difference. Visiting an electronics plant near Portland, Ore., Kennedy encountered the same ecstatic squeals-from middle-aged women. Oddly enough, it was at the University...
Schillaci's homily was on the passion, death and resurrection of man. Switching on an array of equipment, which included five 16-mm. movie projectors, four slide projectors and two tape recorders, Schillaci depicted passion in a wide variety of forms-refugees suffering in World War II, color images of bikini-clad girls, and motorcycle gangs from a Canadian-produced film entitled Satan's Choice. The sounds of Herb Alpert and Bob Dylan blasted the audience's ears...
...gossip quotient, and Updike knows this better than anyone. "Jacques Maritain somewhere says that to write about evil a man needn't have done evil-only felt the evil within himself," Updike remarks. "If people want to make a different conclusion, fine. If the book has passion in it, it's my own. I would hope that at least I have the will to put things down the way they are, under the assumption that there's something beautiful about them in any case. I think a writer has no choice but to deliver what goods...
...passion for detail which is best exhibited in the "Reporter at Large" pieces he writes about foreign countries for the New Yorker. In a three-part study of Micronesia in June, 1966, Kahn carefully recounts the history of that island's chain of conquerors, and describes the conditions of the trust arrangement set up by the United Nations after World...