Word: passions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ever perishes-the kind of hero who sees moral conflict in black and white terms and political conflict in terms of freedom or slavery-then all the evasions, half-truths and compromises of today's collectivist mentalities will not be sufficient to instill in mankind a passion for life. It is only by the grace of heroes that civilization continues...
...felt incandescently what many of us dimly perceive: That man's life is usually neither tragic nor comic nor tragicomic, neither unbearably sad nor inordinately funny, nut a confluence of tiny outrages and satisfactio9ns ornamented by language spoken and language dreamed, which could be enriched only trough the articulate passion...
...seeing ecology taught to students of other disciplines such as law and sociology. >Barry Commoner, 52, chairman of the botany department at Washington University in St. Louis, is a prolific lecturer and writer (Science and Survival) who brings an ecologist's insight and a polemicist's passion to the dangers of environmental pollution. "The new technological man," says Commoner, "carries strontium 90 in his bones, iodine 131 in his thyroid, DDT in his fat and asbestos in his lungs. There is now simply not enough air, water and soil on earth to absorb man-made poisons without effect...
...same time, and with equal passion, Mayer is a writer and lyricist with impressive gifts. It may be fair to say that his writing was at first an extension of his directing; it was an attempt to extend his hegomony over his theater, to reduce the number of autonomous elements which could stand against his authority. Had there been nothing more to it than hunger for power, he might have gone on to dispense with the actors altogether and made theater with one flashing machine under his personal control. Maybe the thought has crossed his mind. But turning inward...
...shall miss him: there are never enough such men around. We shall miss the way his passion for certain principles never obliterated his compassion for human beings, and the way his all-consuming energy deepened and ripened his judiciousness. As a man, as a colleague, as a scholar, he is irreplaceable. Stanley Hoffmann Professor of Government