Word: passional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...haughtily arrogant mien throughout his eight-day visit to the U.S. in 1960. Turning to Ford, Giscard said, "Now, Mr. President, permit me to be my own interpreter," and he proceeded to give his nation's greetings entirely in English. When he spoke of both countries' "identical passion for independence and liberty," it was with a heavy accent. But President Giscard had gone to the trouble of taking English lessons for two years-sometimes by listening...
...wine began to flow more freely, so did Rosenthal's praise and passion for The Times. At one point he called the city room a mental circus...
While battling to save his company, Fraser says he is nonetheless easing himself out of the day-to-day management of Sea Pines so that he can have more time to pursue his latest passion: solar energy. Says he: "My objective was that I'd cease an active role in Sea Pines no later than the age of 50. I'm now 47. There are people in our company who can do the job with me acting as a consultant, providing them with an idea every two or three weeks." He says that he is currently getting "some...
...those few years of intensified youth. In a way it is the fate of a warrior class to receive rewards, plaudits, and exhilaration simultaneously with the means of self-destruction ... For the athlete who reaches thirty-five, something in him dies; not a peripheral activity but a fundamental passion. It necessarily dies. The athlete rarely recuperates. He approaches the end of his playing days the way old people approach death. He puts his finances in order. He reminisces easily. He offers advice to the young...
...artist struggles with intractable materials - in the writer's case, words - to bring forth a new birth of consciousness. The pain is the passion. If the work lives, the birth is successful. From the minutiae of the constricted world Dickinson knew - tending her father, cooking, the muffled gossip of Amherst, Mass., in the 1870s and '80s - she built a bridge to the transcendental mystery of existence. At her best, she succeeded. What makes Julie Harris' performance so moving is that she perceives and conveys these moments of transcendence...