Word: passionateness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drugstore," said a friend, "because he can eat a little and quickly." In Paris, he is rarely invited to theater premieres or fashionable salons. "Getting choice invitations requires work," says one Parisian hostess. "Pierre doesn't go around complimenting people. He just doesn't care." The only passion he developed during these years was one for skiing...
Spare That Oak. Cooper respects the oak of the law with druidical passion. He still bristles at the recollection of Franklin Roosevelt's court-packing plan or Harry Truman's use of "inherent power" to seize the steel mills. He is just as passionately opposed to attempts of his own party colleagues to rule by fiat or overlook the established law. Cooper was one of the first Senate Republicans to denounce Joe McCarthy openly. He is ferociously opposed to legislation permitting wiretapping by federal law-enforcement officers and to the removal of Fifth Amendment protection from reluctant witnesses...
Citation: ''You have . . . been the eyes and the ears of millions, bringing to them objectively, unswervingly, facts as you find them . . . You have put great faith in the intelligence of the American public -and rightly so. But more, you have imbued others with your passion for facts, for truth...
...passion...
...always, succeeded in hammering his sharpest hallucinations deep into the reader's head. Spit-curled Cascade, lantern-bearing Dr.Clodowitz, sovereign-stuffed Titus van Claben-such characters are engraved in the memory for keeps. No visitor since Thomas Wolfe has described London with such off-beat perception and passion-not the London the tourist or the Briton has ever seen, but the insane metropolis "painted like fog with some yellow and raspberry added" that Cèline alone is capable of seeing...