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...late 1950s, which was first called The Fifties, then The Sixties and finally The Seventies. The magazine aimed to introduce South American and European poets to readers in the U.S. In fact, Bly learned Spanish in order to translate Pablo Neruda, whose poetry he loves for its "passion and fire...
...team's quick exit from the playoffs, Abeles career will endure as the standard of excellence for years to come. As she receives her diploma and embarks upon the next challenges in her young life, you can be sure that she will approach life with the same fervor and passion that she exhibited on the field over the past four years...
...Harvard has benefited immeasurably from Neil Rudenstine's wisdom, his humanity, his passion for learning, and his extraordinary leadership," Stone said in a press release...
...Philips dates his passion for wine to the Passover tables of his childhood, where "wine was the one thing forbidden to the kids." By the time he was in his teens, he was taking tasting courses in his hometown of Berkeley, Calif. And though Philips studied film at U.S.C., got a master's at Oxford and bounced from job to job, he spent his free time sniffing, swirling and spitting his way through the world's wines. "Preparation," he says, "for what I was supposed to be doing...
...Presumably, she could have chosen to move to any one of the 50 states in order to start her post-presidential - that is to say, pre-presidential - career. But New York happens to be the home of her beloved Yankees, the baseball team for which she has cherished a passion during all the years of exile in Chicago, Wellesley, New Haven, and Little Rock. And, conveniently, a Senate seat happens to be open in New York. Hillary barnstorms around upstate counties for a few weeks - "listening," as she puts it - and then announces she is running...