Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have been a picnic basket is as resolutely antisensuous as an assembly of naked women could possibly be. Some of them look like seals stranded on rocks. Others are lumpish giantesses. None were painted from actual models because, as his friend the painter Emile Bernard recalled, "he was the slave of an extreme sense of decorum, and...this slavery had two causes: the one, that he didn't trust himself with women; the other, that he had religious scruples and a genuine feeling that such things could not be done in a small provincial town without provoking scandal." Instead...
...single-minded and heartless? Perhaps because so many are. Herman Melville set the tone in 1857 with The Confidence-Man. Mark Twain later brought the national style of go-getting to popular perfection in Huckleberry Finn. An adult rereading of that masterpiece reveals a hierarchy of hustlers, from runaway slave Jim and his fortune-telling hair ball to the outlandish charlatans calling themselves the King and the Duke...
...Shachar '96 is a self-described slave to his passions. His internal masters are many, ranging from the athletic to the intellectual to the interpersonal. He speaks about them in measured words, in an accent that ever so slightly reveals his Israeli origins and years spent in South Africa...
...summer he was invited to return the following summer and, ultimately, to work for the company after graduating. He declined the offer, explaining that he was not interested in pursuing a career in business. Though the offer was attractive, Ben-Shachar notes that being a slave to his passions means he is not a slave to anything else...
...slave to my passions," he smiles. "So my passions change, and my career path changes...