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Word: passions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bulb illuminates the grimy heating pipes, the cockroach-scampered walls, and piles of loose, whitewashed firebricks from the building's boiler. It hardly seems the place for a tryst, yet into that foul tomb last week walked a pair of hippie "love children" intent on the pursuit of passion. Instead they rendezvoused with death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York: Speed Kills | 10/20/1967 | See Source »

...cracks between the thorns, and sometimes, on velvet Israeli evenings, her reserve dissolves entirely and reveals a pensive girl, struggling with great uncertainties. Naomi wants desperately to go to the University and study literature. "I feel that here I am marching in the same place," she says with subdued passion. "Every day the same thing." Her radio (one of the few luxuries the kibbutz allows its members) plays classical music all Sunday when the Israeli radio broadcasts Christian Masses. She keeps a copy of Dylan Thomas' Collected Poems (looking strangely unfamiliar in Hebrew) above...

Author: By David Blumenthal, | Title: Israel: Three Voices of Ayeleth | 10/19/1967 | See Source »

This problem will undoubtedly persist for several years in a society such as Cuba, marked to its core by the fervor, passion and impatience of a young revolution. But meanwhile the technicians are being trained, and the economy continues to move forward surprisingly well, considering its isolation from the rest of the Western Hemisphere...

Author: By Tom Reston, | Title: Cuba's Economy--1967 | 10/18/1967 | See Source »

Faster your disappearing beer than lately mine: Your naked passion for the floor...

Author: By Patrick Odonnell, | Title: Berryman's Sonnets | 10/14/1967 | See Source »

...precise a poet, too careful with his words, and too honest about himself not to have done this completely intentionally. His little statement about his "wuv" prepares the reader pretty well for the 115 sonnets it introduces. With the same accurate, often ironic, self-assessment, and with the passion which those two lines betray. Berryman set out to explore and compose his contradictory reactions to the excellent lady, his adulterous lover...

Author: By Patrick Odonnell, | Title: Berryman's Sonnets | 10/14/1967 | See Source »

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