Word: passions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will suffer most from the reaction to Vietnam will be those who had the greatest doubts about it. And generally speaking, those who have spoken most fluently and feelingly about the defense of liberty, freedom and Marshal Ky's version of democracy in Saigon have never shown the slightest passion for these principles in Birmingham or Harlem. Needless to say I do not include the President in this observation, but I do urge that he require all friends of Vietnam democracy to do their boot training in Birmingham...
...Second Vatican Council unleashed a passion for change in the Roman Catholic Church that has shown no signs of subsiding. And nowhere has the urge to question and challenge the past taken deeper roots than in The Netherlands, where a branch of the church once noted for its stodgy conservatism has suddenly become the acknowledged center of avant-garde thinking within Catholicism...
...Antonio Cabinetmaker Alvaro Alcorta was sentenced to death for the murder of his wife. At the trial, Alcorta vainly claimed that he had come upon his wife and one Natividad Castilleja kissing in a car; Alcorta admitted that he then stabbed his wife to death in a fit of passion, a crime punishable in Texas by no more than five years in prison. For the prosecution, Castilleja blandly testified that he had only a platonic relationship with Mrs. Alcorta. In 1957, after Alcorta had faced execution eleven times, the Supreme Court reversed the conviction on the ground that Castilleja...
...Some nation soon is going to teach the world that free men can accept an aim for humanity bigger than that of any Marxist or any Fascist. They are going to show that free men have the discipline, tradition and faith to pursue that aim with passion and unanimity until it is achieved. One nation guided by God will show the world how to live... And the children of the earth and their children's children will rise up and call that nation blessed...
...atop a drooping, oversized head, a sardonic smile on its decidedly un-English face. Benjamin Disraeli was as unlikely a Prime Minister as England ever had, as prodigal a son as the mother of parliaments ever spawned. During nearly 40 years of Tory leadership, he was hated with rare passion by his enemies, notably Liberal Leader William Gladstone, and often only barely trusted by his own lieutenants. Intrigued more by power than principle, too cynically clever by half in an age craving sober dignity in its statesmen, forever trailing a rake's reputation, Disrael was the great gate crasher...