Word: passions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...watches, moves man: an animal among animals, swallowed in nature's hungry womb, nourished with nature's wisdom and delight. Like dye stains through a tissue, the patterns of nature seep through African society. The force of the volcano imbues the man who smokes a pipe. The passion of the wooing crane inflames the maid who imitates its mating dance. The example of the hornbill, a bird that jealously mud-walls its mate in a tree for as long as three months at a stretch, is incorporated in the marriage laws of the jungle tribes...
...great deal of Cooper's time, passion and talent was squandered on remote or nonliterary causes. There are pages on the wrongs of Poland, and a lot of fascinating stuff written in an art form that modern communications have destroyed-the epistolary description of family life and public events and personages. Toward the end of his stay in Europe, Cooper grew increasingly restless. He sensed, he wrote, "a disposition to drive me back again into my own hemisphere...
...liberals share the enthusiasm for Kennedy. Said the liberal Nation last week: "The Republican passion for Senator Kennedy is obviously based on the theory that however formidable he may be as a pre-convention candidate, he would be a weak nominee for the Democrats." In somewhat the same vein, Republicans have grinned over the fact that Kennedy has nominated New York's Nelson Rockefeller as his "strongest" possible opponent...
...room). He brooks no interruption. If an office messenger invades the room. Keables cries: "I told you we should have locked the door!" If a daydreaming student stares out the window, Keables peers through his bifocals and thunders: "Get out!" Lanky Harold Raymond Keables, 60, is brimful of a passion to teach literature and composition to bright seniors. All he asks is undivided attention. And it pays to pay attention to Teacher Keables...
...Olesha once opposed Communism with such explicit passion as to make Zhivago seem like a gentle reproof...