Word: passionately
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many of us know what it's like to be obsessed by a lifelong dream. But few of us, even given the opportunity, would have the tenacity to pursue such an all-consuming passion...
...Shooting Star, a luminous benediction. Dylan continues to make heavy demands -- these ten songs are the most intensely introspective work anyone has done in rock this year -- but asks only what he brings from himself: some reckless imagination, a sense of playful mystery and a full measure of passion...
Educated African Americans, then, will have to bear the responsibility--perhaps an unfairly greater and more burdensome share than in the past--of reaching out to and educating the remainder of the community. They will have to carry it out with the passion--with the intellectual militance--that characterized the pursuit for equality in the early 1960s...
Honest, now: Can you be a veteran fan and still respond as rock 'n' roll demands you respond -- by belief, by passion, by always raising the stakes -- to performers who may be a quarter-century younger than you are? You could do it with Springsteen; you both were younger then. You did it with U2. But for somebody new? Was rock 'n' roll, forever young, finally middle-aged...
Minimalists trying to imitate the pin-drop prose of the late Raymond Carver would consider Banks' style uncool. But judging from the author's output, cool seems like a social disease. His structures lack grace but carry the weight of his passion and concern...