Word: passione
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...being urgently assaulted in many parts of the world. Half a billion human beings are severely malnourished; they are not living on welfare, nor are they thinking about their private beliefs and about plebiscites. At the moment they are dying of hunger. Yet so much are beliefs the passion of their existence that, when they are not dying of hunger, they express their beliefs in work such as the massively graceful, dazzingly intricate stone palace of Angkor Wat in Cambodia, now being embraced in luxuriant verdure...
...this highly concentrated bit of modern society keeps its humanity when its every move is known. For the most part, the irony of Tolm's character is well realized: privately, he is a decent, doddering family man; publicly, he is an inflammatory symbol in an ideological passion play. But as an ambivalent humanist figurehead for Big Business, he earns little sympathy or credence. It is never clear whether Tolm adequately understands a world where there can be Russian caviar and Cuban cigars on Wall Street and Monopoly sets in the Kremlin...
...words his new wife spoke to him on their wedding morning were "You didn't cut off the crusts" (he had forgotten to trim the connubial toast), Alvarez thought: "It's the wrong script." Frantically, he turned page after page. Didn't Lawrence write that Grand Passion was part of the Great Tradition? Wasn't marriage a heroic endeavor? When, four years later, his marriage foundered, the writer felt that he had failed not only as a husband but as a literary critic...
...Lower East Side, and that experience turned him into a professional social worker. When the Crash came, Governor Roosevelt made Hopkins head of New York's emergency relief, the nation's first such state program. Spreading money among the poor became Hopkins' life's passion, rivaled only by his passion for losing money at the race track...
...Passion for sports is indigenous to Monongahela, 30 miles upriver from Pittsburgh, a steel-gray place of mines, mills and farms, hunting caps, lumberjack shirts, car dealerships and finance companies. It is shot-and-a-beer country, "Iron City" beer. Real boilers are made there as well, and so are quarterbacks. Western Pennsylvania has turned them out as stoic as Johnny Unitas, as extravagant as Joe Namath and as plain tough as George Blanda. Joe Montana Jr. favors all of them somewhat...