Word: passions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This was a flouting, he felt, of natural law: "I believe God intended the union of the sexes as soon as they became of age to know the passion. This may be a singular doctrine and I may hereafter find it false, but I do now firmly believe." Charles Francis was always drawing a moral, even from a word-slinging match between a friend and an Irishman: "A young man is sure to disgrace himself by entering into quarrels with his inferiors, particularly when he is in the wrong...
...addicted to sandals that a local shoe repairman declared himself a sandal-maker and set up shop a thong's throw from campus. For trips to town, the newest thing is a suit with culotte-like pants instead of a skirt. There is also, unaccountably, a sudden passion for pierced ears among otherwise sensible girls in the Ivy League area (four out of every five coeds at the University of Pennsylvania have already taken the step...
Drainpipe Laocoön. Blunt, thickset Paolozzi, 40, son of Italian peasants who wound up in Edinburgh selling ice cream, has the mien of his bulky monsters. He practices judo with a passion. "There comes a split second in judo," he says, "when absolutely everything matters. It should be the same in art." He is fascinated by Greek mythology and, indeed, has wrestled 4-in. pipe into torsos, titling it Towards a Laoco...
...writing a polemic about the meaning of passion narrows the author's exploration of the subject. Once he sets up desire as a symbol of say, rejuvenation, he cannot examine aspects of desire inconsistent with that symbol. This problem naturally limits the autobiographer's reminiscences. Lawrence could not includes humorous reflections on passion in Women in Love without contradicting the tone...
Detailing the promiscuous lives of Lizzie's assistants in the barbershop, Dahlberg emphasizes the sordidness of sex. Yet he can juxtapose such passages with lyrics full of awe about passion. In Truth Is More Sacred, he affirms that "emptied of awe ... the heart is a moldy fungus that poisons the whole earth...