Word: passione
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...FALL IN LOVE and you plunge in blind like a little boy in a swimming hole and you find that her cervix is a razor, and all the vascular urgency of your passion lies split bleeding across the severe edge of experience, and what do you do? When Eros lies manacled in debtor's prison? When all the meat is sucked out of your egg, and all that remains is a thin calcic parody of what might at least have been an omlette? God created women to provide life with a metaphor for itself, and the name of that life...
Hardware may be his livelihood, but the software of history remains Hertzberg's passion. He has published a history of the Jewish community in Atlanta from 1845 to 1915, and he continues to write for scholarly journals. One reason he is able to pursue academic interests away from universities: Hertzberg is a member of the Institute for Research in History, a nonprofit group that helps historians continue scholarly work even though they lack teaching positions...
...years Housman refused the considerable royalties of his verse. "Vanity, not avarice," he announced, "is my ruling passion." When Bertrand Russell lobbied for draft resistance in World War I, Housman refused to protest Russell's removal from his lectureship at Cambridge. He contributed a substantial sum to the war effort, thereby wiping out most of his savings. In academia, Housman was feared by colleagues for ruining the reputations of classicists with his vitriolic criticism...
Still, informed by this fresh appraisal, readers can be content with the precise passion, rigorously perfect meter and understated rhyme of Housman's work. There is little, after all, in English lyric poetry that surpasses one of his finest poems...
EVEN THE MANY professional journalists in Joe Louis Arena Thursday night were somewhat stirred by the staged celebration of the Reagan-Bush ticket. Media types stood up on the specially-constructed wooden tables as the convention hall shook with paroxysms of Republican passion, watching the masses dancing and the two nominees waving. While none of the journalists cheered--they are, after all, paid to be objective or at least, discerning--several were seen to grin, infected by the spirit...