Word: passional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...group who are married, it would have been better if someone had given them a gross of prophylactics, locked them in a motel room for two weeks, and let them get it out of their systems." Boys and girls together reject the post-Renaissance notion that passion, like a chrysanthemum, blooms best when vigorously pinched off. Says Sybil Burton Christopher, who married 25-year-old Bandleader Jordan Christopher after Richard Burton left her for Liz Taylor: "They're breaking away from the unrealities of romantic love to get at the core of love...
...addition to Sunday, Saturday is observed as the Sabbath. Male and female children are circumcised, and the Mosaic dietary laws are observed. The Ethiopians uniquely celebrate a feast in honor of Pontius Pilate, believing that he ultimately repented of his role in Jesus' passion and death. Western scholars have trouble establishing precisely what the church believes, since there is no defined body of doctrine...
...More Passion than Poise. Celebrities abounded. To Aspen came Dr. Jonas Salk, Senator-elect Charles Percy, Adam ("Batman") West, and Defense Secretary McNamara, guest of William Janss, owner of Sun Valley and the power be hind the new Snowmass-at-Aspen ski resort being built eight miles away. Not that devotees of Vail were the slightest bit impressed. "Aspen? Oh, yes, that's a tree, isn't it?" they were saying. Be sides, they had a few names of their own: New York's Mayor John Lind say, Mercury Astronaut Scott Carpenter, IBM Chairman Tom Watson...
...holidays were such showfolk as Art Linkletter, Director William Wyler, Crooner Andy Williams and Composer Henry Mancini. Most visible by virtue of sheer numbers: Bobby and Ethel and seven of their nine children, staying in a five-bedroom cottage across from the Lodge. Bobby, who skis with more passion than poise, latched onto a group of teen-age girl racers, delighted them by setting the pace on a fast down hill run. Son Joseph, 14, was the family casualty this time: barreling down the hill, he fell, breaking his leg cleanly above the boot...
Françoise has the sort of don't-care-girl candor that drives publicists crazy. She lives with a photographer, Jean Perier, in Paris-and right next door to her mother at that. Impresario Coquatrix worries that she "does not have the dedication and passion" for a show-biz career, and Roger Vadim complains of her "unlimited nonchalance." In Manhattan last week, Françoise was dragging through a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer promotion campaign for Grand Prix. On her turtleneck sweater was pinned a button that said APATHY...