Word: passions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Glamorous Maria Callas, 39-long the favorite diva of Greek Shipping Tycoon Aristotle Onassis-stepped onstage at Berlin's Deutsche Oper, and her audience succumbed to love at first sight. Not so German critics, who ungallantly complained about the sound. "The passion has disappeared," said Die Welt's man on the aisle. "One gets the impression she has bidden farewell to art." Groaned another...
...more censorious generation) that books sell sex. In any case, The Sex Diary of Gerard Sorme seems dedicated by Novelist Colin Wilson to the first of these notions. As to the second, the Diary will not sell sex, since the subject is presented at its worst-neither for play, passion nor procreation, but as a something-or-other that promotes the spiritual development of a prig. It is woeful stuff-the sort of Promethean flimflam that steams up from a painfully protracted puberty. One other question lingers in the mind: How was the author of this stupefyingly pretentious piffle ever...
Cooper was in other ways disconcerting. He has a passion for fast cars, drives his 1963 Sting Ray Chevrolet at speeds upward of 100 m.p.h. His humor is unpredictable. Before the first Mercury flight, by Shepard, Cooper was asked to demonstrate to television cameramen how the astronaut would ride to the launch pad in a van and enter a gantry elevator for the space shot. Cooper donned a silver space suit, walked to the elevator entrance-and stopped in mock horror. As cameras whirred, he grabbed a girder and screamed: "No! I don't wanna...
...that these questions and answers will be uncovered and liberated far more and for far more people than they are under the human condition in the present period. And I believe that it is the duty of all those who speak for our time-including TIME -to help with passion and wisdom so that the ultimate question becomes powerful again in our Western culture and in our nation...
...back seat of a baby Renault. Yet room at the top is always open for top graduates of Louis-le-grand, France's most prestigious lycée, or state-run academic high school. Across the street from the Sorbonne in Paris, Louis-le-grand has an ancient passion to create "an elite of the elite" and a modern penchant for vaulting brainy boys into the grandes écoles, the supra-universities whose graduates virtually run France. This week Lycée Louis-le-grand celebrates the 400th anniversary of its founding by a once despised elite: the Jesuits...