Word: passionately
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...youth, that no one kisses "(dry or wet)," that we write Mac-poetry. He has reason to be so. Professor Blumenthal wants us to understand that he has thought this through, that this is wisdom, that this is reasoned. But if the youth of the '60s were "at-least-passionate," then the youth of the 1980s--my peers who watched the divorce rate among their parents skyrocket (at-least-passionate), who watched AIDS claim the lives of thousands (at-least-passionate), who came to view successful marriages as the exception to the rule, who came to understand that, for their...
...many times have we heard it before? The alleged slogan of the "younger generation" is "MAKE BUCKS, NOT LOVE." The younger generation is marked by materialism, "somberness," and "deglandularization." We have no passion. We have no idealism. We have no politics. Last week, Michael Blumenthal joined the ever-growing consensus that all us '80s kids are unromantic, apathetic, "dollar-sniffing" jerks...
...dish the dirt about opera singers. None can meet their fierce standards except Maria Callas (a performance by whom provides the play's title). They admire her for blending technique and emotion and, more deeply, for enduring a sad life and lonely death. Other artists, they say, impersonate the passion and hysterics of opera; she lived them...
Weisbrod's passion for the ice began at an early age. As a two-year-old, he was already zipping around rinks near his home in Woodbury, N.Y. At age three, he fell in love with hockey through his family's television...
Nixon is the most scrupulous in money matters. He will not take fees for speaking, will not serve on corporate boards, dropped his $3 million-a-year Secret Service detail. His passion remains power and influence. Nancy Reagan's memoirs report that Nixon called the White House in 1987 and offered his services to urge the hapless Don Regan to quit as chief of staff...