Word: passione
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...horizon of his stories, a tiny solitary figure can usually be found: a latter-day Adam, as lost as on the first day after the Fall-or, more likely, an Eve. The storms Hardy stages on his heath are nothing compared with the tempests of sexual passion that tear at the hearts of these lonely wanderers among the thorns: Bathsheba of Far from the Madding Crowd, Eustacia Vye of The Return of the Native, Tess of the d'Urbervilles...
Administration officials had hoped that Reagan might have drained some of the passion out of the rallies by announcing, before he left Washington, that the U.S. and the Soviet Union would begin talks on reduction of strategic nuclear weapons in Geneva at the end of June. But the early portents were mixed. In Rome, a crowd estimated at anywhere from 100,000 to 300,000 marched Saturday in a demonstration, organized largely by the Italian Communist Party, that took on a decidedly anti-American tone. On the other hand, organizers claimed to have brought out 100,000 people in Bonn...
...Miracle will be performed in many places with many casts, but it is doubtful if the miracle workers at Spoleto will be outperformed. Jane Alexander contains emotions like a dam, and as the tide of feeling rises and crests the dam breaks, the playgoer is flooded with her unleashed passion...
Ronald Reagan and Leonid Brezhnev spoke with a new passion in the past year about substantial cuts in nuclear capacity. But at the negotiating table this summer, their representatives will haggle over the same old minutiae, such as how to classify the plethora of weapons systems. Failure, when combined with the inevitable confrontations over other world issues, will likely lead the two leaders back to the saber-rattling with which they are so much more comfortable...
Klingensmith discovered another passion sophomore year. After convincing the History Department to give him credit, he began trekking to the Divinity School for a course on Calvin. "I thought I knew something about Calvinism, and it seemed pretty abhorrent--beliefs in predestination, election, sovereignty." Despite extensive reading, Klingensmith ended the semester still convinced it was "rot. But I also realized that if it was rot, it was also very hard to answer, very well thought out. Over the summer I began to think on it, and realized it represented a very coherent and scripturally "accurate approach to religion...