Word: passionateness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...love himself, if he can. He meets Cécile at her home in Brunswick, and the same night, though not in love with her, writes a brilliant note saying he is. Cécile scorns him, and Constant is enraptured; he concludes that he feels "the most violent passion...
After that, no office could hold him. For the rest of his life, with the pure, cold, scientific passion of a lepidopterist, he was true to butterflies. He even found a girl who was willing to spend her evenings in his "Bug Room," setting specimens and cataloguing his collection. His subsequent marriage became an insect-ridden partnership. Between them, Newman and his wife built their hobby of butterfly-farming into a paying business...
...except if to keep me awake and then without sugar . . . No verses in Passion Week or on Fridays." It was not long before Undergraduate Hopkins followed famed John Henry Newman into the Roman Catholic Church, and within a year of graduation he entered the Jesuit novitiate. He had written poetry at Oxford, but before he took his vows he made a bonfire of his manuscripts. Worldly fame, he decided, was "a great danger . . . as dangerous as wealth . . . and as hard to enter the kingdom of heaven with." For seven years he wrote no poetry...
Such incidents invariably provoke bitter disputes on the efficacy of capital punishment, but in such cases passion and prejudice fair discussion of the merits of the death penalty. Similarly Communists will back the abolition of capital punishment not as humane principle, but to favor anti-social members of their own party like the Rosenbergs. Before the Civil War, slavery abolitionists also favored capital punishment abolition, and their belligerence convinced many that they would abolish the structure of society as well if given the opportunity. It is no wonder then that opponents of capital punishment are at times suspect...
...Call. Billy Ford, 28, is the irrepressible kid brother. He is the smallest (5 ft. 7 in.), and his wiry, 150-lb. frame is full of bounce. He not only has Old Henry's mechanical flair but his passion for collecting (he owns 200 old-fashioned guns). He is married to Martha Firestone, granddaughter of Harvey