Word: passional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...involved in anti-war demonstrations because many people from Harvard helped plan the war. "For us to be getting all of the benefits of Harvard made us feel incredibly guilty. The war was continually present in our lives. Many of us felt personally responsible for the war. The passion we felt is impossible to explain and feel again. I don't think many of my classmates are going to forget that period...
Whatever the reasons, this period is mostly past, and McCartney has embraced the good life with a fine passion. "Paul's very worried about losing his fans because of being too Establishment," John Eastman observes, but McCartney has no hesitation in announcing: "It's nice waking up in the morning now. Instead of the dregs of the night, you have the refreshing faces of children and a cup of tea." There are three faces likely to pop up in front of him-Heather, 13, Linda's daughter from a previous marriage, Mary, 6, and Stella...
...closeup angles. Replaying highlights of games that viewers had not seen, ABC Monday Night Baseball showed at length the on-field fracas of the Chicago Cubs-San Francisco Giants game nine days after it occurred. Football cheap shots and beanball brawls, hockey fistfights and basketball square-offs - exercises of passion that transgress the rules - are a minor part of any sports event. Yet they are given long and detailed attention, instant and incessant replay...
Damp Handshake. He campaigns with an awkward, mechanical passion. "Monckton never thought of handshaking as a personal contact with the electors," Ehrlichman writes. "He was doing all that crap on autopilot." At one point the politically smiling candidate escapes from a crowd at the Waldorf by retreating to an elevator filled with his own staff. Once inside, "his face changed as though he had suddenly broken out of a trance; his smile collapsed, his eyes darkened as if a light had been extinguished...
Died. Morris L. Ernst, 87, civil liberties and labor lawyer who served as an adviser to U.S. Presidents; in New York City. Ernst had a passion for causes, and very few were lost. An ebullient foe of censorship, he broke down the ban on James Joyce's Ulysses. He served as counsel to the American Newspaper Guild and the American Civil Liberties Union; he defended Communists and Frank Costello, while deploring both. Concerned in later life that too many restraints had been removed, he declared that he would not want "to live in a society without limits to freedom...