Word: passione
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...PASSION by Peter Nichols...
...book in progress about Zionist history and has written an impressive sheaf of neoconservative pieces on politics and foreign affairs for the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the New Republic and Commentary. "He's very much a real intellectual," says one of his editors. "His passion is the world of ideas. He is very, very brilliant, the most impressive young man I've ever come across." He is charming and attractive to boot; a few years ago, he was the escort of Caroline Kennedy. Adds the incredulous editor: "He was no square, but he believes...
None of this is news to folks in Midwestern and Western states, where the wild fungus, once derided as a "toadstool," is hunted with passion. Last week the season for morels, considered by many connoisseurs to be the tastiest of all, was coming to its peak in Mesick, Mich. (pop. 373), which calls itself "the Mushroom Capital" and counts among its landmarks the Mushroom Cap Motel and the Mush-Room Bar; despite heavy rain, a 30-minute parade swept Miss Mesick Mushroom and her court to fungoid fame...
...possible to love any human being without being torn limb from limb? No one was ever made wretched in a brothel; there need be nothing angst-forming about the sexual act. Yet. . . when sexual emotion increases to passion, then something starts growing which possesses a life of its own and which, easily though it can be destroyed by ignorance and neglect, will die in agony and go on dying after it is dead...
...comes yet more. Volume X, titled Companion, is a kind of Pepysopedia, ranging from biographical sketches of all the myriad characters to a 25-page essay on Pepys' passion for music. "Music and women I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is," he confessed. Volume XI, finally, is an index, bibliography and list of corrections, and with that, this handsomely definitive work is done...