Word: passione
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...comparison is far-fetched, perhaps offensive. But it speaks to the crux of what is wrong with this town, which is that it derives too much of its culture, its passion, its self-esteem, from a passive intake of the Eucharist of sports. When the Yankees lose, New Yorkers are pissed, but they quickly get over it and realize all the wonderful things about their city that they can actively, energetically participate in. Boston needs to learn that there is life after January, and that while sports are great, they are still only circuses, performed to give...
...dichotomy between ideology and pragmatism has been best described by German sociologist Max Weber in his essay “Politics as a Vocation.” Weber asked, “How can warm passion and a cool sense of proportion be forged together in one and the same soul?” He urges balance and concludes, “An ethic of ultimate ends and an ethic of responsibility are not absolute contracts but rather supplements, which only in unison constitute a genuine man—a man who can have the ‘calling...
...have a passion for the theater and for what I do. If a writer comes to me and says, "I have a script that could make a great musical," why would I not follow that through...
...study and you’re likely to get three different answers. For some, it’s a melodic language of nostalgia and loss. For others, it’s the synchrony of two bodies in motion. And for some, it’s a symbol of passion and possession deeply interwoven in structures of social authority. At 3 p.m. this afternoon, the curtain will rise on “Tango! Dance the World Around: Global Transformations of Latin American Culture,” a weekend conference in Radcliffe Yard that will interrogate these riddling definitions through a unique...
...squanders Staples’s humorous potential to focus on emotive passages that seem silly within its walls. Coupland has created the archetypes of society’s endgame, but instead of bringing them back to the living with his trademark wit, he terminates them with all the passion of a Xerox user manual.“The Gum Thief” may have been Coupland’s play for postmodern literary power, an ill-conceived appeal to critics to see him as more than a pop-culture reference point. It may never have occurred to him that...