Word: passionately
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground at Moscow's Theater for Young Spectators, the withdrawn and embittered central character repeatedly pushes with all his might against the immovable proscenium arch at the side of the stage. The gesture is an apt visual metaphor not only for a melancholy nobody's passion to smash the barriers of loneliness but also for the yearning of the whole Moscow drama world to break down the confines of habit and tradition. Everywhere one goes in the theater these days, the same artistic self-criticism is heard: there are almost no vibrant new playwrights or imaginative...
While our parents reminisced about the Beaver and Pinky Lee, we spoke of rubber duckies, talking frogs and furry, blue monsters. We sang about the alphabet, laughed like Ernie and made fun of Bert's passion for pigeons. For an hour every afternoon, from age two to eight, we sat in front of a television. Life...
RICHARD BURTON: A LIFE by Melvyn Bragg (Little, Brown; $22.95). This meticulous biography includes generous quotations from the subject's letters and his 350,000-word private diary; the result is a portrait of a vivid actor who approached language with the same passion he lavished on Elizabeth Taylor...
Nunn's other passion is his proposal to create a Citizens Corps. The plan would have young people work at community jobs -- or serve in the military -- in exchange for education grants of $10,000 to $12,000 for each year of service. "We have to restore a sense of civic obligation," says Nunn. "Today everything is considered an entitlement." Nunn's national-service proposal has been criticized for discriminating against the poor, a charge Nunn finds "ridiculous . . . The current system isn't working. The dropout rates are horrendous, and $10,000 is more than almost every student could hope...
...Obscure Passion...