Word: passions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Please, Mother," one of her sons once begged, "if someone offers you Mount McKinley as a gift, don't try to move it"; see ART, Collector's Passion...
...conference of the hemisphere's foreign ministers in March, U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles pushed through a resolution opposing Communist domination of any Latin American nation. The disapproval among Che's friends in Guatemala was immediate and violent, and he was swept along by their passion. Two months later, with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency as a silent partner, a Guatemalan colonel named Carlos Castillo Armas launched his counter-revolutionary invasion of the Red-dominated country. As F-47s swooped down over Guatemala City with U.S. pilots at the controls, Guevara dashed blindly around town trying...
...experts think that it may cover Gibeon, an ancient city whose inhabitants, according to the Book of Joshua, made a deal with the invading Israelites and so were not slaughtered, only enslaved. For four years, Professor James B. Pritchard of Church Divinity School of the Pacific, whose passion is checking the historical accuracy of the Old Testament, dug at el-Jib. He found many interesting things, including the pool of Gibeon, a well where the men of David fought the men of Saul.* He proved by inscriptions that the town had been called Gibeon. But he did not prove that...
...Force was his first philosophy, followed by bouts with Buddhism and Leninism. Though he sometimes sounded like an atheist and proclaimed that man creates God in his own image, Kazantzakis was agonized by the struggle for faith and haunted by the figure of Christ. His 1948 novel, The Greek Passion-in which a group of villagers with roles in a passion play are forced to act out their roles in real life-movingly restated the old idea that if Christ returned to earth he would be crucified again. But Kazantzakis' real struggle with the Son of Man came...
...Passion Play Sir: Hang TIME ! Most obviously you forgot that the people of Oberammergau are devotedly fulfilling a promise to God that their ancestors made centuries back. In the 1600s, when the Black Plague was sweeping the country, killing thousands, the people of this village turned to their only help-they dropped to their knees and promised God that if the plague was spared them, they would present the drama of the Christ's Passion every ten years. This is what they are doing. They aren't striving for the perfection of Hollywood with all its top stars...